Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

- Addison, Joseph

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Plutarch

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

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

Disney, Walt

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

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Zapata, Emiliano

10.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

11.

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

Petit-Senn, John

12.

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

Mark Twain

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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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

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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

Kirby Larson

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

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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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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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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

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

Bible

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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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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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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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ellinger, Jules

34.

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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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

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Hudson, William Henry

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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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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord