Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

- Rosten, Leo

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

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

Ovid

But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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

Jean Paul Richter

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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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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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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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

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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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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

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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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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Ovid

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

Battista, D.A.

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Churchill, Winston

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Horace

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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 is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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