Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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.

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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

Greville, Lord

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Corra Harris

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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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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

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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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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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

Sherman, William T.

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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

Jean Paul Richter

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

Proverb

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

Disney, Walt

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

William Shakespeare

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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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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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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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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 consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo