Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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!

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

There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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

John Wayne

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

Pollock, Channing

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

Clare Booth Luce

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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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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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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

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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

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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Menander of Athens

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

Plutarch

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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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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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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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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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin