Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Jensen, Andrew

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

'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

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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!

A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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 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

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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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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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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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

Ovid

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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 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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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

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

Luther, Martin

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

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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 rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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

William Shakespeare

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

John Wayne

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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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.