Motivational Quotes

Courage

Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

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Best Quotes about Courage

We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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

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

John Quincy Adams

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

Carnegie, Dale

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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 the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

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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

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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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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Clare Booth Luce

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Churchill, Winston

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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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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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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Plaut

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

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Evans, Richard L.

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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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