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 consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Kirby Larson

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

Anouilh, Jean

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

Eco, Umberto

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

10.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

11.

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

12.

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.

13.

Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

14.

There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

21.

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 dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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

Tyger, Frank

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Proverb

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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

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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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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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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.

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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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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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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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

44.

Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

45.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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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.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.