Motivational Quotes

Courage

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

- Lawana Blackwell

Best Quotes about Courage

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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.

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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

All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

10.

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

Bible

11.

Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

12.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

13.

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

14.

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

15.

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

16.

'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

17.

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

18.

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

Churchill, Winston

19.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

20.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

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

Churchill, Winston

22.

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.

23.

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.

24.

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

Sherman, William T.

25.

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

27.

Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

28.

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

29.

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

Cicero

30.

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

31.

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

32.

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

33.

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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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

35.

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

36.

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

37.

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

Worsham, James A.

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

E. M. Forster

39.

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

40.

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

Jensen, Andrew

41.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

42.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

43.

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

John Wayne

44.

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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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

46.

A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

48.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

49.

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 test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.