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

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

Twain, Mark

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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

Bible

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

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

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 courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Bible

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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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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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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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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

E. M. Forster

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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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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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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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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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

Anouilh, Jean

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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Valois, Margaret

47.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Horace

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

Teresa of Avila, St.