Motivational Quotes

Courage

A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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Best Quotes about Courage

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.

Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Zapata, Emiliano

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

'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

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.

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

King, Basil

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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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

Luther, Martin

18.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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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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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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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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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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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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

Sherman, William T.

27.

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

E. M. Forster

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

Valois, Margaret

29.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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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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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Weininger, Ben

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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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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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

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

Mark Twain

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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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

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Seneca

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

Adler, Freda

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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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

49.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Bombeck, Erma