Motivational Quotes

Courage

Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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.

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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

Bible

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

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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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.

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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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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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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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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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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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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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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.

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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

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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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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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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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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

Greville, Lord

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

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