Motivational Quotes

Courage

I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

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Best Quotes about Courage

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

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

John Wayne

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

Twain, Mark

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Battista, D.A.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Bombeck, Erma

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Ellinger, Jules

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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

William Shakespeare

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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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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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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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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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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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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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Ovid

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

Johnson, John

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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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

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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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

Plaut

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Pollock, Channing