Motivational Quotes

Courage

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

- Johnson, Lyndon B.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Bradbury, Ray

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Tyger, Frank

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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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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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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Hudson, William Henry

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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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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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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

Kirby Larson

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

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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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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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