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.

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

William Shakespeare

2.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

3.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

4.

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

5.

The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

6.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

7.

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.

8.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

9.

A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

10.

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

11.

Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

12.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

14.

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

Ovid

15.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

16.

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.

17.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

18.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

19.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

20.

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

21.

'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

22.

You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

23.

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

Johnson, John

24.

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

Mark Twain

25.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

26.

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

27.

Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

28.

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

29.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

30.

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

31.

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

33.

'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

34.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

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

36.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

37.

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

Twain, Mark

38.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

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