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Courage

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

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Best Quotes about Courage

Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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

Ovid

You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Plutarch

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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

Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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

Plutarch

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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]

Bible

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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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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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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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Horace

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

Carnegie, Dale

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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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

Tyger, Frank

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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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]

Bible

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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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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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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 burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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.