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Courage

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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Best Quotes about Courage

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Worsham, James A.

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

King, Basil

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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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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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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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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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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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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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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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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Cicero

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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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

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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

Bible

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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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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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 strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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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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