Motivational Quotes

Courage

I am more important than my problems.

- Ferrer, Jose

Best Quotes about 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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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.

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

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

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

To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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

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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.

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Churchill, Winston

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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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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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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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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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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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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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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Horace

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

William Shakespeare

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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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

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

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

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

E. M. Forster

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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

Kirby Larson

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

Hammarskjold, Dag