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

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

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

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

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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

Petit-Senn, John

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Mark Twain

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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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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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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

Taylor, Bayard

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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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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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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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

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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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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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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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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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

Mark Twain

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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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

Hudson, William Henry

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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!

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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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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert