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

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!

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

William Shakespeare

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

John Wayne

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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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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]

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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

Euripides

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

Voltaire

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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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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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

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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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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Adler, Freda

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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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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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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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

Battista, D.A.

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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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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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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

Plaut