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

Ovid

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

Proverb

Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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

Euripides

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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.

Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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

King, Basil

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Jean Paul Richter

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Eco, Umberto

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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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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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Karr, Alphonse

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

29.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

Voltaire

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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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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Adler, Freda

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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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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Plutarch

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

John Quincy Adams

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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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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

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

Hudson, William Henry