Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Bradley, Omar

Best Quotes about Courage

It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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

Schuller, Robert H.

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

10.

Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

11.

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

Joel, Billy

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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

Twain, Mark

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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

17.

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

Hudson, William Henry

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

Johnson, Samuel

21.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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

Euripides

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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

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Greville, Lord

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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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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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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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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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

37.

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

41.

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.