Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Courage

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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

E. M. Forster

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

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

Pollock, Channing

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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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

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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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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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

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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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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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

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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Weininger, Ben

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

Kirby Larson

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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

King, Basil

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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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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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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