Motivational Quotes

Courage

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!

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Best Quotes about Courage

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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

'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

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

Worsham, James A.

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

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

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

Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.

Twain, Mark

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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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

Barton, Bruce

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Kirby Larson

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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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

Proverb

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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

Smith, Sydney

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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 a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Clare Booth Luce

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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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