Motivational Quotes

Courage

It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Courage

The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Carnegie, Dale

It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Plaut

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

Twain, Mark

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

Barton, Bruce

10.

Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

11.

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

12.

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

Johnson, Samuel

13.

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.

14.

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

15.

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

16.

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

Kirby Larson

17.

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

18.

Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

19.

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

20.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

21.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

22.

'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

23.

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.

24.

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

Tyger, Frank

25.

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

Karr, Alphonse

26.

Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

27.

I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

28.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

29.

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

Evans, Richard L.

30.

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

Mark Twain

31.

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

Ovid

32.

Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

33.

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

34.

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

Twain, Mark

35.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

36.

It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

37.

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

Forbes, B. C.

38.

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.

39.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

40.

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

41.

Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

42.

I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

43.

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

44.

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Sherman, William T.

49.

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

50.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North