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

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

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

Churchill, Winston

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Churchill, Winston

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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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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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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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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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.

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Corra Harris

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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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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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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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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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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

Euripides

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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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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

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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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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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.