Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Kirby Larson

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Plutarch

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Twain, Mark

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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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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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil