Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

- Hill, Aaron

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.

He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

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

Corra Harris

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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

Lawana Blackwell

When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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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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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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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Mark Twain

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

Shakespeare, William

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Euripides

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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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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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

Disney, Walt

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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

Horace

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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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

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

Pollock, Channing

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Karr, Alphonse

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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

King, Basil

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

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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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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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Petit-Senn, John

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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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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