Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Mark Twain

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Ellinger, Jules

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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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

11.

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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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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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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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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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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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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

E. M. Forster

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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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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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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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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Anouilh, Jean

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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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

43.

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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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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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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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Voltaire

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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