Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

William Shakespeare

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Churchill, Winston

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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

Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Horace

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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

13.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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

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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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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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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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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 brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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

Twain, Mark

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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

32.

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Plaut

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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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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]