Motivational Quotes

Courage

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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Best Quotes about Courage

The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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

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

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

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

Twain, Mark

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

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

Ovid

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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Forbes, B. C.

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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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

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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.

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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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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

Karr, Alphonse

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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Horace

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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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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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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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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Churchill, Winston

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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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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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