Motivational Quotes

Courage

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Horace

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

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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

Shakespeare, William

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.

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

10.

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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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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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

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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Twain, Mark

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Battista, D.A.

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Voltaire

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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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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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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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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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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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

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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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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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

Mark Twain

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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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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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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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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.