Motivational Quotes

Courage

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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Best Quotes about Courage

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Bradley, Omar

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Battista, D.A.

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

Adler, Freda

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Luther, Martin

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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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.

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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

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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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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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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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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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

Collier, Jeremy

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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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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 real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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

John Quincy Adams

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

Seneca

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Twain, Mark

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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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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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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

Carnegie, Dale

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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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