Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

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Best Quotes about Courage

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

John Wayne

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Disney, Walt

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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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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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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

Shakespeare, William

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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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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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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

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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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

Smith, Sydney

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Euripides

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

Proverb

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Worsham, James A.

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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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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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Evans, Richard L.

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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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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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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto