Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Kirby Larson

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Churchill, Winston

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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

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

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

You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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.

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

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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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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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

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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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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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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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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

John Quincy Adams

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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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.

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

Valois, Margaret

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

Kirby Larson

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Bible

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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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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