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

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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.

The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Evans, Richard L.

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

Hudson, William Henry

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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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

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

Young, Owen D.

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Thomson, James

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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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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Horace

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Luther, Martin

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

Joel, Billy

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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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 stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

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