Motivational Quotes

Courage

We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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Best Quotes about Courage

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

Young, Owen D.

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Hudson, William Henry

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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.

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Luther, Martin

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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

E. M. Forster

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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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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

William Shakespeare

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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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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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Bible

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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

Cicero

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

King, Basil

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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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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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Seneca

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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