Motivational Quotes

Courage

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

- Carnegie, Dale

Best Quotes about Courage

1.

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

2.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

3.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

4.

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

5.

The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

6.

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

William Shakespeare

7.

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

8.

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

Ovid

9.

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

10.

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

11.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

12.

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

Valois, Margaret

13.

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.

14.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

15.

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

16.

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

Twain, Mark

17.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

18.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

19.

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

Anouilh, Jean

20.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

21.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

22.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

23.

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

Mark Twain

24.

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

25.

He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

26.

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

27.

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

28.

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

Eco, Umberto

29.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

30.

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

Smith, Sydney

31.

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

Sherman, William T.

32.

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

Bible

33.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

34.

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

35.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

36.

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

Thomas Fuller

37.

No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

38.

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

Lao-Tzu

39.

In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

40.

I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

41.

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

Taylor, Bayard

42.

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

43.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

44.

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

45.

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.

46.

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

47.

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

48.

Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

49.

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.