Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Cicero

Best Quotes about Courage

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.

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Horace

The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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

Bible

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

10.

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

11.

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

12.

Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

13.

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

Ovid

14.

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

Ovid

15.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

16.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

17.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

18.

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

Mark Twain

19.

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

20.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

21.

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

22.

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

23.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

24.

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

25.

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

26.

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

27.

Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

28.

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

29.

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

Jean Paul Richter

30.

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

31.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

32.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

33.

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

34.

Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Anouilh, Jean

37.

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

38.

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.

39.

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

Thomas Fuller

40.

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

41.

'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

42.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

43.

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

Bernanos, Georges

44.

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

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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

46.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

47.

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

48.

We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

49.

When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence