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 finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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

Bible

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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

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

Bible

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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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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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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

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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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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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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

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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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There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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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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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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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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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Euripides

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Luce, Timothy

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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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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, 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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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.