Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

Jensen, Andrew

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

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

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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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Petit-Senn, John

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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

Kirby Larson

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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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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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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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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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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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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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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

King, Basil

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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.

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

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

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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

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

Cicero

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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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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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bradley, Omar

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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Part of courage is simple consistency.