Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

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Best Quotes about Courage

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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

Valois, Margaret

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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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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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Plutarch

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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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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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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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

Mark Twain

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Johnson, John

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

Kirby Larson

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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

Luce, Timothy

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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

Euripides

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David