Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

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Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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.

Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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

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

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

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Mark Twain

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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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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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

John Wayne

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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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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 person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hudson, William Henry

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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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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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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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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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

Worsham, James A.