Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

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Best Quotes about Courage

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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

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

E. M. Forster

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

Adler, Freda

Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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

I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

Seneca

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Thomson, James

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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

Plaut

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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

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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Clare Booth Luce

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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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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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.