Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

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Best Quotes about Courage

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

Bible

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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

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

Bradley, Omar

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Bible

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

Kirby Larson

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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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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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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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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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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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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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

Valois, Margaret

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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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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

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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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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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

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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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.