Motivational Quotes

Courage

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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Best Quotes about Courage

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Joel, Billy

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

Churchill, Winston

Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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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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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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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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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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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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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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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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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 brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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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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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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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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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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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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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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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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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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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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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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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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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.