Motivational Quotes

Courage

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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Best Quotes about Courage

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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?

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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

John Wayne

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

Jean Paul Richter

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

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

Horace

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

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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

Bradley, Omar

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Harold Wilson

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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

Mark Twain

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

Plutarch

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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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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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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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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

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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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

William Shakespeare