Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

- Earhart, Amelia

Best Quotes about Courage

1.

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

2.

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

3.

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

4.

Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

5.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

6.

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

Churchill, Winston

7.

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

Shakespeare, William

8.

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

9.

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

Shakespeare, William

10.

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

12.

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

13.

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

14.

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

Ovid

15.

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

16.

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

Twain, Mark

17.

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

18.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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

20.

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

21.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

22.

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

Greville, Lord

23.

No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

24.

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.

25.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

26.

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.

27.

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

28.

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

29.

The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

30.

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

31.

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

Mark Twain

32.

Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

33.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

34.

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

35.

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

Harold Wilson

36.

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

Hudson, William Henry

37.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

38.

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.

39.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

40.

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

Carroll, Lewis

41.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

42.

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

Bible

43.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

44.

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

Jean Paul Richter

45.

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

Churchill, Winston

46.

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

47.

As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

48.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

49.

You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

50.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow