Motivational Quotes

Courage

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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Best Quotes about Courage

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

Anouilh, Jean

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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

Zapata, Emiliano

The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Ovid

11.

Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

12.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

13.

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

Seneca

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

Eco, Umberto

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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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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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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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

Disney, Walt

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

29.

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

Worsham, James A.

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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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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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Bradley, Omar

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

40.

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

Horace

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

Hudson, William Henry

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Schuller, Robert H.