Motivational Quotes

Courage

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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Best Quotes about Courage

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

Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Ovid

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

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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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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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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Valois, Margaret

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

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

Adler, Freda

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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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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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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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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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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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Kirby Larson

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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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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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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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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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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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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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

John Quincy Adams