Motivational Quotes

Courage

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

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Best Quotes about Courage

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

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

Ellinger, Jules

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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

Luce, Timothy

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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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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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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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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 stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Euripides

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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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 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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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Hudson, William Henry

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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Churchill, Winston

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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.

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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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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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Kirby Larson

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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