Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Plaut

Best Quotes about Courage

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

As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Sherman, William T.

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Mark Twain

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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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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'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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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Euripides

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

King, Basil

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Mark Twain

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Proverb

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

William Shakespeare

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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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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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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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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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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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 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