Motivational Quotes

Courage

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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.

There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Evans, Richard L.

10.

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

Voltaire

11.

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

Clare Booth Luce

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

13.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Plaut

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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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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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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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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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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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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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

Luther, Martin

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

Kirby Larson

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.