Motivational Quotes

Courage

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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Best Quotes about Courage

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Cicero

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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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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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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

E. M. Forster

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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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Adler, Freda

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

Petit-Senn, John

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Churchill, Winston

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Luther, Martin

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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Pollock, Channing

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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

Valois, Margaret

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

Joel, Billy

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean