Motivational Quotes

Courage

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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Best Quotes about Courage

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

Carroll, Lewis

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Mignon McLaughlin

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Joel, Billy

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

Karr, Alphonse

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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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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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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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Plaut

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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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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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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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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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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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

Horace

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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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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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Luce, Timothy

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.