Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about 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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Thomas Fuller

Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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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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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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.

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Plutarch

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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

24.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Valois, Margaret

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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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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Disney, Walt

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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

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Adler, Freda

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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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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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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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