Motivational Quotes

Courage

Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

- James, William

Best Quotes about Courage

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

James, William

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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.

A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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.

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

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Twain, Mark

11.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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 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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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

15.

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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

Clare Booth Luce

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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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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pollock, Channing

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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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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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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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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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

31.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Bible

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

41.

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

Monson, Thomas S.

42.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

King, Basil

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Greville, Lord

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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

E. M. Forster