Motivational Quotes

Courage

I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

- Worsham, James A.

Best Quotes about Courage

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.

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

Bradbury, Ray

Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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

Mark Twain

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

William Shakespeare

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.

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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

Kirby Larson

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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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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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Churchill, Winston

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Proverb

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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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]

Bible

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Voltaire

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Jean Paul Richter

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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia