Motivational Quotes

Courage

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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Best Quotes about Courage

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

Menander of Athens

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Cicero

A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

19.

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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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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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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.

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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

Thomson, James

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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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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.

31.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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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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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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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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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle