Motivational Quotes

Courage

Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Twain, Mark

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

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Voltaire

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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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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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Anouilh, Jean

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

William Shakespeare

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

Cicero

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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

Bible

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

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

Sherman, William T.

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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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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.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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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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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

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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Twain, Mark

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

Horace

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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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

Shakespeare, William

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid