Motivational Quotes

Courage

No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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Best Quotes about Courage

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

Joel, Billy

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

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

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

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

Churchill, Winston

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Jean Paul Richter

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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

Battista, D.A.

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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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 am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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 brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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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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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

Taylor, Bayard

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Eco, Umberto

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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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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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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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

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

Voltaire

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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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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

Churchill, Winston

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Plaut

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