Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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.

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

James, William

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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 almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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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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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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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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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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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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

King, Basil

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Menander of Athens

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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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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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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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

Bradley, Omar

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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

Eco, Umberto

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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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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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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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