Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Courage

1.

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

Bible

2.

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

3.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

4.

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

5.

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

Eco, Umberto

6.

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

7.

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

Churchill, Winston

8.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

9.

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

10.

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

Bernanos, Georges

11.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

12.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

13.

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

Bombeck, Erma

14.

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

15.

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

16.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

17.

The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

18.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

19.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

20.

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

21.

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.

22.

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

Carroll, Lewis

23.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

24.

A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

25.

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

Greville, Lord

26.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

27.

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

28.

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.

29.

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

Plutarch

30.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

31.

Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

32.

A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

33.

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

Bible

34.

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?

35.

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

Clare Booth Luce

36.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

37.

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

38.

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

Ellinger, Jules

39.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

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

Voltaire

41.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

42.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

43.

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

44.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

45.

Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

46.

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

Barton, Bruce

47.

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

48.

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

Corra Harris

49.

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

Seneca

50.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea