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

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

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bible

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Euripides

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

Seneca

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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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

William Shakespeare

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Thomas Fuller

18.

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Collier, Jeremy

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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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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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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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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.

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Seneca

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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

Proverb

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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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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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

John Wayne

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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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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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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil