Motivational Quotes

Courage

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

- Thomson, James

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

10.

Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

11.

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.

12.

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

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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

14.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

15.

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

16.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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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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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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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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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

24.

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

Carnegie, Dale

25.

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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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 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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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

30.

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

Mark Twain

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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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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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

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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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Seneca

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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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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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

43.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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

Bradley, Omar

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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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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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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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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

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy