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

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Voltaire

A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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.

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

Thomson, James

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Ovid

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

Kirby Larson

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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

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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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 follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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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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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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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

John Quincy Adams

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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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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.