Motivational Quotes

Courage

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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Best Quotes about Courage

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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

Adler, Freda

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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

Seneca

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

Karr, Alphonse

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Thomas Fuller

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Proverb

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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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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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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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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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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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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

Bradley, Omar

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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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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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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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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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Carroll, Lewis

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

Shakespeare, William

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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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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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Weininger, Ben

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Disney, Walt

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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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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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von