Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Valois, Margaret

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]

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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.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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

Twain, Mark

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

Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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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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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

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

Twain, Mark

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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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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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Kirby Larson

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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

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

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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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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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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Lao-Tzu

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Carnegie, Dale

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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'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

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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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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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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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

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