Motivational Quotes

Courage

Part of courage is simple consistency.

- Noonan, Peggy

Best Quotes about Courage

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

E. M. Forster

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

Shakespeare, William

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.

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

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

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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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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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Hudson, William Henry

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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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

Proverb

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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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

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

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

Mark Twain

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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

Smith, Sydney

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Luther, Martin

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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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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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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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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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

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

Seneca