Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

- Sherman, William T.

Best Quotes about Courage

No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

Anouilh, Jean

'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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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

Johnson, John

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

12.

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

Kirby Larson

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mark Twain

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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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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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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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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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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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.

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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

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Horace

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

Carnegie, Dale

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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

Collier, Jeremy

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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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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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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

42.

I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.