Motivational Quotes

Courage

Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

- Ellinger, Jules

Best Quotes about Courage

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Corra Harris

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

Thomas Fuller

There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Twain, Mark

10.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

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

Johnson, Samuel

12.

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

Horace

13.

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

14.

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

15.

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

Evans, Richard L.

16.

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

17.

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

Mark Twain

18.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

19.

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

20.

I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

21.

The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

22.

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

Bible

23.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

24.

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

25.

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

Johnson, Samuel

26.

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

Pollock, Channing

27.

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

Kirby Larson

28.

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!

29.

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

Einstein, Albert

30.

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

31.

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

32.

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

Seneca

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Twain, Mark

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

39.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

40.

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

41.

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

Anouilh, Jean

42.

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

43.

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

Churchill, Winston

44.

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.

45.

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

46.

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.

47.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

48.

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

49.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

50.

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann