Motivational Quotes

Courage

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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Best Quotes about Courage

You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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

Sherman, William T.

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

Greville, Lord

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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

Ellinger, Jules

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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 boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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

Cicero

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

Taylor, Bayard

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Proverb

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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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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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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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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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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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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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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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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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.