Motivational Quotes

Courage

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

- Cicero

Best Quotes about Courage

1.

'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

2.

No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

3.

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

Voltaire

4.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

5.

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

6.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

7.

A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

8.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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.

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.

11.

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

12.

Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

14.

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

Churchill, Winston

15.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

16.

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

17.

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

18.

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.

19.

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

Bible

20.

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

21.

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

Twain, Mark

22.

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

23.

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

24.

Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

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.

27.

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

28.

To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

29.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

30.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

31.

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

32.

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

33.

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.

34.

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

35.

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

36.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

38.

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

39.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

40.

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

Tyger, Frank

41.

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