Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Jensen, Andrew

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Twain, Mark

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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

Thomson, James

Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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.

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

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

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

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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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.

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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

Churchill, Winston

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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

Euripides

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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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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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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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

Ovid

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

Cicero

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Young, Owen D.

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

Shakespeare, William

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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu