Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

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Best Quotes about Courage

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Luce, Timothy

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

Pollock, Channing

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

Lao-Tzu

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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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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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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.

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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 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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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Ovid

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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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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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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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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

Valois, Margaret

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

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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

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

Eco, Umberto

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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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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

Thomson, James

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

Battista, D.A.