Motivational Quotes

Courage

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.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Johnson, John

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ovid

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.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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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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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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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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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

Petit-Senn, John

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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 enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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

Clare Booth Luce

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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

Collier, Jeremy

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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

Karr, Alphonse

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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 brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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

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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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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Luther, Martin

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.