Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

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Best Quotes about Courage

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Bible

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

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

Anouilh, Jean

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

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

Kirby Larson

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Ellinger, Jules

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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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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 is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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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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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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