Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

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Best Quotes about Courage

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

E. M. Forster

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

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bible

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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

11.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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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 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.

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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

26.

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

27.

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

Bible

28.

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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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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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

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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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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Shakespeare, William

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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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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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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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