Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

11.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Harold Wilson

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

Tyger, Frank

16.

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

Johnson, John

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

Euripides

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

24.

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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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.

27.

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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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

31.

I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Collier, Jeremy

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Greville, Lord

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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.

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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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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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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 man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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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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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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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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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?

48.

You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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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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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.