Motivational Quotes

Courage

The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

- Luce, Timothy

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Kirby Larson

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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.

10.

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

Worsham, James A.

11.

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

12.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

15.

Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Pollock, Channing

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

John Wayne

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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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

John Quincy Adams

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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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

Shakespeare, William

25.

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

26.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Luther, Martin

29.

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

Johnson, John

30.

Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Joel, Billy

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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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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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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

44.

The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

45.

A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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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 follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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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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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow