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

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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.

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

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

Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Zapata, Emiliano

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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

Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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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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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Battista, D.A.

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

Mark Twain

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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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

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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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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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Euripides

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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 advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Greville, Lord

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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