Motivational Quotes

Courage

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

- Eco, Umberto

Best Quotes about Courage

1.

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

2.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

3.

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

Cicero

4.

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

6.

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

7.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

8.

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

9.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

10.

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

Mark Twain

11.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

12.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

13.

Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

14.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

15.

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

Zapata, Emiliano

16.

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

17.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

18.

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

Euripides

21.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

22.

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

23.

The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

24.

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

25.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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.

It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

28.

With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

29.

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

Johnson, Samuel

30.

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

Anouilh, Jean

31.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

32.

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

33.

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

Churchill, Winston

34.

All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

35.

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

37.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

38.

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

40.

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

Pollock, Channing

41.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

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

43.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

44.

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

Carnegie, Dale

45.

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

46.

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Ovid

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

Bible

49.

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

50.

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