Motivational Quotes

Courage

It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

- Young, Owen D.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Horace

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

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

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

Weininger, Ben

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

18.

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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

Bradley, Omar

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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 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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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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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Sherman, William T.

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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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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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.