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

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

Anouilh, Jean

We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Churchill, Winston

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

11.

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

12.

Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

13.

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

Proverb

14.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

16.

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

17.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

18.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

19.

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

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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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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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

23.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

24.

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

25.

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

Euripides

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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

27.

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

King, Basil

28.

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

Horace

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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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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

31.

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

32.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

33.

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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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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

Mark Twain

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

Lewis, Sinclair

38.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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 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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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Adler, Freda

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel