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

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

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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.

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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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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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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

Mark Twain

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

John Wayne

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Twain, Mark

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Bradley, Omar

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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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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Ovid

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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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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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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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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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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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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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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