Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Worsham, James A.

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

Shakespeare, William

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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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

Bradley, Omar

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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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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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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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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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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

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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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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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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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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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

Plutarch

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Twain, Mark

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'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

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

Mark Twain

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

Bible

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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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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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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von