Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Courage

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.

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

Bible

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

Schuller, Robert H.

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Mark Twain

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

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 means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

11.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

13.

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.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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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

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

Euripides

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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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

Voltaire

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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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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

King, Basil

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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

Kirby Larson

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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

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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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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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

Churchill, Winston