Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Mignon McLaughlin

Best Quotes about Courage

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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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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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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

Disney, Walt

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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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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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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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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.

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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

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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Harold Wilson

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

Mark Twain