Motivational Quotes

Courage

The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Best Quotes about Courage

1.

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

Bernanos, Georges

2.

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

Smith, Sydney

3.

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

4.

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

Ovid

5.

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.

6.

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

7.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

8.

Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

9.

Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

10.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

11.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

12.

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

13.

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

14.

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

15.

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.

16.

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

17.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

18.

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

19.

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

Disney, Walt

20.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

21.

'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

22.

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

23.

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

24.

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

Plutarch

25.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

26.

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

27.

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

28.

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

Shakespeare, William

29.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

30.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

31.

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

32.

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.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

33.

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.

34.

Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

35.

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

36.

I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

37.

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

38.

As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

39.

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

Churchill, Winston

40.

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

41.

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

Carnegie, Dale

42.

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

43.

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

Twain, Mark

44.

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

Menander of Athens

45.

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

46.

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

47.

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

48.

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

49.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

50.

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

Richter, Jean Paul