Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

1.

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

2.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

3.

Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

4.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

5.

I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

6.

Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

7.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

8.

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

9.

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

Smith, Sydney

10.

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.

11.

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

12.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

13.

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.

14.

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

15.

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

Einstein, Albert

16.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

17.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

18.

Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

19.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

20.

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

21.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

22.

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

23.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

24.

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

25.

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

26.

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

27.

We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

28.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

29.

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

Eco, Umberto

30.

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

Carnegie, Dale

31.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

32.

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

33.

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

34.

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

35.

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

King, Basil

36.

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

37.

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

38.

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

Zapata, Emiliano

39.

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

Bible

40.

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

Karr, Alphonse

41.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

42.

Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

43.

A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

44.

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

45.

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

46.

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

47.

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

Greville, Lord

48.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

49.

If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

50.

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