Motivational Quotes

Courage

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

- Mignon McLaughlin

Best Quotes about Courage

It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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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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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

John Quincy Adams

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Ovid

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Kirby Larson

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

Thomson, James

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Valois, Margaret

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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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

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Petit-Senn, John

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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel