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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Bible

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.

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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

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

Eco, Umberto

Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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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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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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Taylor, Bayard

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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

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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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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'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

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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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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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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 follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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

Ovid

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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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'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

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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