Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Jensen, Andrew

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

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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

Bradley, Omar

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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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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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

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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

Ovid

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

Forbes, B. C.

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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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

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

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

Euripides

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Menander of Athens

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

John Wayne

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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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

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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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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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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