Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Courage

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.

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

Ovid

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

Worsham, James A.

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

Kirby Larson

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Sherman, William T.

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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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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Mark Twain

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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 leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Luther, Martin

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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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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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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Eco, Umberto

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

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

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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Anouilh, Jean

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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

43.

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

Twain, Mark

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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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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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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

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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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.

DeVos, Richard M.

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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.