Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

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Best Quotes about Courage

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

Zapata, Emiliano

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Jean Paul Richter

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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.

10.

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

Kirby Larson

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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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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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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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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Thomson, James

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

Cicero

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

John Quincy Adams

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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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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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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mark Twain

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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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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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 almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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

Bible

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord