Motivational Quotes

Courage

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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Best Quotes about Courage

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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

King, Basil

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

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

Luce, Timothy

With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Bradley, Omar

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

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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

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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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

Adler, Freda

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

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

Pollock, Channing

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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

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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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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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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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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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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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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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

Kirby Larson

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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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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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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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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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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

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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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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