Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

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

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

10.

With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

11.

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.

12.

Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

13.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

14.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

15.

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

Twain, Mark

16.

But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

17.

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

18.

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

19.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

20.

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.

21.

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

Bombeck, Erma

22.

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

24.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

26.

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

Hudson, William Henry

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

30.

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

31.

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

32.

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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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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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.

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

36.

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

37.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

38.

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

39.

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

40.

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

Petit-Senn, John

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

E. M. Forster

44.

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

Voltaire

45.

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

Plaut

46.

Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Bradley, Omar

48.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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.