Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

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Best Quotes about Courage

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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

A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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

Anouilh, Jean

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Hudson, William Henry

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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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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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.

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Carnegie, Dale

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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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

Bible

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

Bible

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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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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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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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

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

Euripides

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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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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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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