Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Monson, Thomas S.

Best Quotes about Courage

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

Valois, Margaret

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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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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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

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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

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Seneca

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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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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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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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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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Weininger, Ben

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale