Motivational Quotes

Courage

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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Best Quotes about Courage

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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]

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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Worsham, James A.

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Mark Twain

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

Ovid

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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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 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 leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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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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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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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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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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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

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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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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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Roosevelt, Theodore