Motivational Quotes

Courage

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

- Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

Best Quotes about Courage

The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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

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.

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

John Wayne

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

Valois, Margaret

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Anouilh, Jean

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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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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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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

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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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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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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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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.

Mark Twain

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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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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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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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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 resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.

Twain, Mark

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Euripides

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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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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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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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.