Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Karr, Alphonse

Best Quotes about Courage

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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

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

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

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

Bradbury, Ray

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Menander of Athens

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Horace

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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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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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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?

25.

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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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.

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

Kirby Larson

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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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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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 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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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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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Valois, Margaret

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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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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 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 conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid