Motivational Quotes

Courage

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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Best Quotes about Courage

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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

Bible

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

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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

Seneca

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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

Disney, Walt

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

Adler, Freda

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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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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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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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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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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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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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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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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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Kirby Larson

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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 takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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

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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.

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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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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

39.

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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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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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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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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.

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

E. M. Forster

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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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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.

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander