Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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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.

2.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

3.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

4.

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

Bombeck, Erma

5.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

6.

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

Karr, Alphonse

7.

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

Kirby Larson

8.

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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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

10.

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

12.

I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

13.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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

17.

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

18.

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

Thomas Fuller

19.

Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

20.

You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

21.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

22.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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

24.

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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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

26.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

27.

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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

29.

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

Euripides

30.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

31.

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

Adler, Freda

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

33.

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

34.

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

35.

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

36.

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

37.

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

38.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

40.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

41.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

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

43.

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

44.

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

Carnegie, Dale

45.

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

46.

No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

47.

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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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

49.

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.