Motivational Quotes

Courage

The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

- Battista, D.A.

Best Quotes about 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.

Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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

John Wayne

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

Joel, Billy

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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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.

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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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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?

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Adler, Freda

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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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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'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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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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

Euripides

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