Motivational Quotes

Courage

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

- Thomas Fuller

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Luce, Timothy

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Valois, Margaret

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

Worsham, James A.

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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 acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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'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

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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Clare Booth Luce

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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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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

Tyger, Frank

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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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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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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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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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

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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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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

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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.