Motivational Quotes

Courage

True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

- Shaftesbury, Lord

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.

Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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

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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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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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Battista, D.A.

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

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

John Quincy Adams

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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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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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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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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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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'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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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!

28.

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

Plutarch

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Mark Twain

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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Voltaire

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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

Seneca

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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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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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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.