Motivational Quotes

Courage

Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

- Mill, John Stuart

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Corra Harris

Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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

Sherman, William T.

Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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

Anouilh, Jean

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Kirby Larson

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.

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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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

William Shakespeare

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb

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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Disney, Walt

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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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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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

Greville, Lord

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Barton, Bruce

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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Pollock, Channing

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

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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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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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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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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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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William