Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

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Best Quotes about Courage

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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.

Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Plutarch

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

Worsham, James A.

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Cicero

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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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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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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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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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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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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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Mark Twain

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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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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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

Euripides

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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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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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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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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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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