Motivational Quotes

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.

Best Quotes about Courage

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

'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

All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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

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

Plutarch

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

'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

It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

E. M. Forster

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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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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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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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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

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

18.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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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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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

21.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Clare Booth Luce

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

John Wayne

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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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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

29.

But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bible

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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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

35.

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

36.

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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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.

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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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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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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

King, Basil