Motivational Quotes

Courage

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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Best Quotes about Courage

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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

Mark Twain

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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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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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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

Mark Twain

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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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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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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Proverb

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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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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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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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 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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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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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.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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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

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

Cicero

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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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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!