Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

- Plutarch

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.

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

Bible

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Ellinger, Jules

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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

Seneca

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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Collier, Jeremy

15.

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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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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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

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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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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

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Corra Harris

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Luther, Martin

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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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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.

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

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

William Shakespeare

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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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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

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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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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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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

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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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

Kirby Larson

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

Weininger, Ben