Motivational Quotes

Courage

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Euripides

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Bradley, Omar

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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.

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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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

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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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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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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

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

Battista, D.A.

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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 can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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

Smith, Sydney

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

28.

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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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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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Seneca

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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.

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

Ovid

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

43.

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.