Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

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Best Quotes about 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.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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.

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Twain, Mark

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

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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

Thomson, James

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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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

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

Hudson, William Henry

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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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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Luther, Martin

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas 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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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Bible

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Tyger, Frank

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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

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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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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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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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

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

Voltaire

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

Bible

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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 is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George