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

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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

Johnson, John

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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.

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

Adler, Freda

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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 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

11.

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

Churchill, Winston

12.

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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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

15.

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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.

18.

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

19.

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

22.

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

23.

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

24.

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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Ovid

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Proverb

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

John Wayne

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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.