Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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.

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

Twain, Mark

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

Disney, Walt

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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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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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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

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

Seneca

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

Battista, D.A.

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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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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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 stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Mark Twain

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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

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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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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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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?

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Jean Paul Richter

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.