Motivational Quotes

Courage

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

- Flaubert, Gustave

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Barton, Bruce

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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

Battista, D.A.

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

Bradley, Omar

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Carnegie, Dale

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

11.

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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

Euripides

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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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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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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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

Luther, Martin

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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

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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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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Petit-Senn, John

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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

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Greville, Lord

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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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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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.