Motivational Quotes

Courage

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

- Konrad, George

Best Quotes about 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

We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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

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

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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

Valois, Margaret

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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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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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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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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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Konrad, George

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

21.

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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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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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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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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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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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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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.

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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

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

Hudson, William Henry

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Joel, Billy

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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

William Shakespeare

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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

Mark Twain

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement