Motivational Quotes

Courage

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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Best Quotes about Courage

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

Kirby Larson

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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

Ovid

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

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

Adler, Freda

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Mark Twain

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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

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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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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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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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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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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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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

22.

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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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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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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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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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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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.