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

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Jean Paul Richter

Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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

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

10.

The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

11.

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 burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

13.

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

Worsham, James A.

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

Karr, Alphonse

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Churchill, Winston

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Brown, Les

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

Plutarch

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

Euripides

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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

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

38.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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

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

Jensen, Andrew

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

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