Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Kirby Larson

Best Quotes about Courage

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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

A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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

Johnson, John

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

Twain, Mark

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Plutarch

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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

Kirby Larson

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Jean Paul Richter

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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

Ovid

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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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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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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas 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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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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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 is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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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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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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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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

Karr, Alphonse

41.

No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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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.

43.

I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.