Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

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

Plutarch

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

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

Horace

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

Eco, Umberto

Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

10.

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

Johnson, Samuel

11.

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

12.

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

Carnegie, Dale

13.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

14.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

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

King, Basil

16.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

17.

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

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

19.

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

20.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

21.

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

Bernanos, Georges

22.

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

Churchill, Winston

23.

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

24.

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

Bible

25.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

26.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

27.

It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

28.

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

29.

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

Mark Twain

30.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

'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

32.

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

33.

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

34.

In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

35.

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

36.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

37.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

38.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

40.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

41.

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

42.

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

43.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

44.

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

Johnson, John

45.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

46.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

47.

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

Twain, Mark

48.

When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

49.

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

50.

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