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

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

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Evans, Richard L.

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.

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

Adler, Freda

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.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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

King, Basil

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

Cicero

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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

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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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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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Ovid

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

Thomson, James

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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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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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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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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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Euripides

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

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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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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Bradley, Omar

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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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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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.