Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Forbes, B. C.

Best Quotes about Courage

The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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.

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

Menander of Athens

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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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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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, 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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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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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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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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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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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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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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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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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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

Mark Twain

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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

Ovid

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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

Twain, Mark

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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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

Johnson, John

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy