Motivational Quotes

Courage

No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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Best Quotes about Courage

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Ellinger, Jules

When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

'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

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

Einstein, Albert

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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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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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

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

Kirby Larson

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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

Cicero

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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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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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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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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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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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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Worsham, James A.

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Battista, D.A.

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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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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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

Menander of Athens

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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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

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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.