Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about 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

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Clare Booth Luce

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Churchill, Winston

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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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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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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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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.

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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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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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

Battista, D.A.

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Carnegie, Dale

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Shakespeare, William

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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 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

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Ovid

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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.