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

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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

Greville, Lord

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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

Harold Wilson

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Young, Owen D.

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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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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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'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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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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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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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

28.

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

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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'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

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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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 wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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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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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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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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