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

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!

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Shakespeare, William

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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

Voltaire

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

Jean Paul Richter

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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

Ovid

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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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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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

Johnson, John

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Bible

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

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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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 strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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

Euripides

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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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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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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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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

Luther, Martin

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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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

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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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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Seneca

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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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

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.