Motivational Quotes

Courage

A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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Best Quotes about Courage

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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

Luce, Timothy

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.

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?

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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

Battista, D.A.

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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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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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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

21.

'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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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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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.

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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 burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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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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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

41.

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

42.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Horace

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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

Ovid

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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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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave