Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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

Jensen, Andrew

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

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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?

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!

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

Joel, Billy

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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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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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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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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.

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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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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

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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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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Johnson, John

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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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

Shakespeare, William

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

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

Anouilh, Jean

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S�ren

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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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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais