Motivational Quotes

Courage

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

- Menander

Best Quotes about Courage

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Voltaire

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

Menander of Athens

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

Seneca

Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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

11.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

12.

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Bible

14.

A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

15.

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

16.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

17.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

18.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

19.

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

20.

Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

21.

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

22.

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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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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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

25.

A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

26.

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

27.

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.

28.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

29.

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

Disney, Walt

30.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Ovid

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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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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

40.

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

Bombeck, Erma

41.

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

42.

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

Karr, Alphonse

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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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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Mark Twain

47.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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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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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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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce