Motivational Quotes

Courage

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

- King Jr. Martin Luther

Best Quotes about Courage

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert