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

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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

Luce, Timothy

In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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 leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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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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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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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Kirby Larson

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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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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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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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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 takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Battista, D.A.

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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

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

Young, Owen D.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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

Lao-Tzu

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