Motivational Quotes

Courage

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

- Homer

Best Quotes about Courage

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

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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.

It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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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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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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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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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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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Seneca

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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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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Bradley, Omar

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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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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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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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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

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

E. M. Forster

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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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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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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

Joel, Billy

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Mark Twain

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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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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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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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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

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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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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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

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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