Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

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Best Quotes about Courage

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

Thomas Fuller

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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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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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Shakespeare, William

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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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]

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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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

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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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

Twain, Mark

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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

Kirby Larson

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

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