Motivational Quotes

Courage

With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

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Best Quotes about Courage

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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.

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

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

Kirby Larson

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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

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.

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.

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

King, Basil

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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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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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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

John Wayne

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Tyger, Frank

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Bradley, Omar

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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 takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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

Taylor, Bayard

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Voltaire

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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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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Euripides

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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.