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

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Bible

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Einstein, Albert

Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

10.

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

11.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

12.

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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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

King, Basil

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

Luther, Martin

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

17.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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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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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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'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

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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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

Plutarch

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

Battista, D.A.

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

28.

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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

William Shakespeare

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

37.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

42.

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

Adler, Freda

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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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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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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 more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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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 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