Motivational Quotes

Courage

Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Bible

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

Seneca

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

No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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

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

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

Jensen, Andrew

10.

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

11.

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

Monson, Thomas S.

12.

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

Seneca

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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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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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'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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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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

20.

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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

Adler, Freda

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

28.

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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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

31.

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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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

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Plutarch

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

Shakespeare, William

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Part of courage is simple consistency.