Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Shakespeare, William

Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

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

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

10.

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

Cicero

11.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

12.

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.

13.

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

Twain, Mark

14.

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

15.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

16.

I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

17.

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

18.

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

19.

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

Brown, Les

20.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

21.

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

Mark Twain

22.

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

23.

If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

24.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

25.

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

Einstein, Albert

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

Luther, Martin

28.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

29.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

30.

It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

31.

You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

32.

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

33.

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

Harold Wilson

34.

In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

35.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

36.

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

37.

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

Jensen, Andrew

38.

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

39.

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

40.

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.