Motivational Quotes

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.

Best Quotes about Courage

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Valois, Margaret

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Battista, D.A.

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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

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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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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

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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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

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

E. M. Forster

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

Jensen, Andrew

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

Horace

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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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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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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

Twain, Mark

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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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 is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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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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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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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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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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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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