Motivational Quotes

Courage

Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

- Hart, Oliver J.

Best Quotes about Courage

It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Bible

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

Johnson, Samuel

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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 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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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 -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Bradley, Omar

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

Battista, D.A.

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hudson, William Henry

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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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

Cicero

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Euripides

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

29.

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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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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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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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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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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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

William Shakespeare

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.