Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

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Best Quotes about Courage

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

Adler, Freda

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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

Bombeck, Erma

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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?

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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

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

Karr, Alphonse

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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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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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Sherman, William T.

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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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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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

Battista, D.A.

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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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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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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

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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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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Hudson, William Henry

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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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

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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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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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Kirby Larson

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