Motivational Quotes

Courage

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

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Best Quotes about Courage

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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

Lewis, Sinclair

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.

Twain, Mark

Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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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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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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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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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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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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 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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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Luther, Martin

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

Hudson, William Henry

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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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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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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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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 and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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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 takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

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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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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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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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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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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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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

Weininger, Ben

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

Seneca

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.