Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

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Best Quotes about Courage

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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

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

If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Schuller, Robert H.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bible

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

Greville, Lord

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cicero

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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

Harold Wilson

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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

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Kirby Larson

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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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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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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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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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.

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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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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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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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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.

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.