Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Bible

I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Voltaire

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Hudson, William Henry

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Kirby Larson

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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.

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

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

Disney, Walt

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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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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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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Twain, Mark

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

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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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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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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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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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Shakespeare, William

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

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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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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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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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

Evans, Richard L.

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

Churchill, Winston

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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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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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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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