Motivational Quotes

Courage

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.

Best Quotes about Courage

1.

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

2.

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

3.

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

4.

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

5.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

6.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

7.

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

Hudson, William Henry

8.

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

9.

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

Zapata, Emiliano

10.

I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

11.

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

12.

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

Ovid

13.

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

Carnegie, Dale

14.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

15.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

16.

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

Bernanos, Georges

17.

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

18.

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

19.

I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

20.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

22.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

23.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

24.

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

E. M. Forster

25.

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

Churchill, Winston

26.

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

27.

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

28.

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

29.

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

Greville, Lord

30.

'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

31.

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

Sherman, William T.

32.

Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

33.

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

34.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

35.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

37.

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

38.

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

39.

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

Bible

40.

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

41.

But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

42.

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

Churchill, Winston

43.

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

44.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

45.

A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

46.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

47.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

48.

As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

49.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

50.

A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.