Motivational Quotes

Courage

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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Best Quotes about Courage

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.

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

Monson, Thomas S.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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.

'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

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

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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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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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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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Battista, D.A.

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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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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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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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

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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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

King, Basil

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

Twain, Mark

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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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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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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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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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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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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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.