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

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Plutarch

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

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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

Proverb

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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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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Pollock, Channing

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Mark Twain

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Voltaire

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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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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Hudson, William Henry

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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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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'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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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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

Cicero

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Kirby Larson

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil