Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

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Best Quotes about Courage

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.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

Monson, Thomas S.

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Jean Paul Richter

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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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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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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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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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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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Greville, Lord

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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

33.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bradley, Omar

35.

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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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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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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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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

Bible

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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