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

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

E. M. Forster

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

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

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

Plutarch

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Seneca

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

Thomas Fuller

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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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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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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

John Wayne

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

21.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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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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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

27.

Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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

Euripides

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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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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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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.

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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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

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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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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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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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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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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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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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

47.

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

48.

There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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

Schuller, Robert H.