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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Monson, Thomas S.

It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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

Seneca

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

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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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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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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

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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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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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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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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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

Worsham, James A.

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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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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Plutarch

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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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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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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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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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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Battista, D.A.

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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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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 would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.