Motivational Quotes

Courage

'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

Best Quotes about Courage

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Mark Twain

You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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

King, Basil

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.

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

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

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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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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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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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

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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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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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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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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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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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

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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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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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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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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

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Voltaire

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Twain, Mark

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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank