Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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.

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

Plutarch

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

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

William Shakespeare

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard 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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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Hudson, William Henry

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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Voltaire

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Carnegie, Dale

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Valois, Margaret

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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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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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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 matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.