Motivational Quotes

Courage

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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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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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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Disney, Walt

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Weininger, Ben

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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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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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

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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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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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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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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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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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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Bradley, Omar

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

Shakespeare, William

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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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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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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

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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