Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

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Best Quotes about Courage

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Greville, Lord

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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!

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

12.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

13.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

14.

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

Jean Paul Richter

15.

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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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

19.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

20.

You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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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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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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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

28.

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

29.

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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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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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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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

40.

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

Anouilh, Jean

41.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bible

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.

Twain, Mark

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

John Wayne

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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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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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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander