Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Jensen, Andrew

Best Quotes about Courage

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Horace

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

Young, Owen D.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

Cicero

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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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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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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

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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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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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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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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

Clare Booth Luce

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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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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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

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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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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Eco, Umberto

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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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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Petit-Senn, John

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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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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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.