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

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

Kirby Larson

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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

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.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Cicero

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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

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

23.

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

Joel, Billy

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

William Shakespeare

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

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

Churchill, Winston

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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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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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.