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

Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

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

Ellinger, Jules

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.

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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.

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

Jensen, Andrew

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Anouilh, Jean

10.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

11.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

12.

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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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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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

16.

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

18.

It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

19.

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

Bible

20.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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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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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

24.

You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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

27.

I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

28.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

29.

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

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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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

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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

Battista, D.A.

37.

In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

43.

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

Pollock, Channing

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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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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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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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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

49.

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois