Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Kirby Larson

Best Quotes about Courage

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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.

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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

The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Cicero

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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

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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

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

Karr, Alphonse

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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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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Seneca

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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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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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Mark Twain

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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

King Jr. Martin Luther