Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Ellinger, Jules

Best Quotes about Courage

1.

We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

2.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

3.

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

4.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

5.

We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

6.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

7.

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

Mark Twain

8.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

9.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

10.

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

11.

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

12.

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

13.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

14.

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

15.

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

Shakespeare, William

16.

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

Barton, Bruce

17.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

18.

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

19.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

20.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

21.

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

Johnson, John

22.

No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

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

E. M. Forster

30.

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

31.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

32.

The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

33.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

34.

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

Greville, Lord

35.

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

Worsham, James A.

36.

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

37.

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

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

Harold Wilson

39.

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

Churchill, Winston

40.

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

41.

Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

42.

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

43.

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

Johnson, Samuel

44.

The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

45.

I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

46.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

47.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

48.

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.

49.

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

Bible

50.

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