Motivational Quotes

Courage

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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Best Quotes about Courage

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

Barton, Bruce

Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

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

Worsham, James A.

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

I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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

Twain, Mark

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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

Seneca

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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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.

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

Jean Paul Richter

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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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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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

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

John Quincy Adams

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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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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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

Petit-Senn, John

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Eco, Umberto

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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 advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les