Motivational Quotes

Courage

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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Best Quotes about Courage

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Horace

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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

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

Churchill, Winston

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

John Wayne

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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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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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Valois, Margaret

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

Ovid

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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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

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

Plutarch

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Bible

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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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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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

Bible

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Voltaire

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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