Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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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

2.

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

3.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

4.

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

5.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

6.

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

Eco, Umberto

7.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

8.

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

9.

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

Mark Twain

10.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

11.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

12.

Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

13.

I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

14.

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

15.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

16.

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

17.

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

Luce, Timothy

18.

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

19.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

20.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

26.

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

27.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

28.

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

29.

It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

30.

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

31.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

32.

The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

33.

Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

34.

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

35.

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

36.

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

Tyger, Frank

37.

Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

38.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

39.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

40.

I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

41.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

42.

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

43.

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

44.

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

45.

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

46.

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

Bernanos, Georges

47.

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