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Courage

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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Best Quotes about Courage

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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

Greville, Lord

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

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

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Karr, Alphonse

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

14.

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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 is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

19.

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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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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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Bible

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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Eco, Umberto

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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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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Plutarch

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

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

Luther, Martin

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

Sherman, William T.

42.

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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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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