Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

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Best Quotes about 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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Thomas Fuller

Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Evans, Richard L.

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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

Weininger, Ben

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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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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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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

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

Plutarch

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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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Ovid

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

Anouilh, Jean

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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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 the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

Voltaire

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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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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 the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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