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

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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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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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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

Harold Wilson

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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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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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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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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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Luce, Timothy

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Corra Harris

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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

Ovid

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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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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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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

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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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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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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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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