Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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

Johnson, John

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

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

Bible

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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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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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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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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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Shakespeare, William

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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

John Wayne

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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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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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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.