Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

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Best Quotes about Courage

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

Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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

Greville, Lord

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Plutarch

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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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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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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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

Bradley, Omar

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

Valois, Margaret

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Horace

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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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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 being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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

Carnegie, Dale

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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

Bombeck, Erma

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Collier, Jeremy

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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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

Cicero

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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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

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

Twain, Mark

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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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