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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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

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.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Worsham, James A.

10.

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

Pollock, Channing

11.

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

12.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Mark Twain

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

Twain, Mark

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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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.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

27.

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

28.

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

35.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Petit-Senn, John

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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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

Zapata, Emiliano