Quotes about courage

"There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause."

Adams, George M. on courage
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"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 on courage
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"Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on courage
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"Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize."

Harrison, Elizabeth on courage
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"The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century."

Madwed, Sidney on courage
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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 on courage
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"A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success."

Unknown, Source on courage
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"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."

Unknown, Source on courage
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"I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high water mark of pure and useful living."

Washington, Booker T. on courage
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"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."

Adams, John Quincy on courage
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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 on courage
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"There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control."

Adler, Freda on courage
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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 on courage
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"Often the test of courage is not to die but to live."

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di on courage
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"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 on courage
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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 on courage
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"It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base."

Anouilh, Jean on courage
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"Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage."

Anouilh, Jean on courage
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"The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances."

Aristotle on courage
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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 on courage
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"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 on courage
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"Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt."

Augustine, St. on courage
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"The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fears subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from."

Baillie, Joanna on courage
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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 on courage
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"The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior."

Battista, D.A. on courage
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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 on courage
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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 on courage
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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 on courage
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"Courage is fear that has said its prayers."

Bernard, Dorothy on courage
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"If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs."

Bethune, Mary Mcleod on courage
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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 on courage
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"Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]"

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

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

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

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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]"

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"The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale"

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova on courage
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"It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else."

Bombeck, Erma on courage
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"Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on courage
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"It requires more courage to suffer than to die."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on courage
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