Motivational Quotes

Courage

No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

- Gilmore, David

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Bible

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

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

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

Horace

10.

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

11.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

12.

Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

13.

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?

14.

Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

15.

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

Worsham, James A.

16.

To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

17.

Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

18.

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

19.

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

20.

He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

21.

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

E. M. Forster

22.

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

Karr, Alphonse

23.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

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

Ovid

25.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

26.

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

Bradbury, Ray

27.

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

Seneca

28.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

29.

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

30.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

31.

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

32.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

33.

As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

34.

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.

35.

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

Disney, Walt

36.

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

37.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

38.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

39.

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

40.

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

Thomas Fuller

41.

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

42.

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

43.

Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

47.

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

48.

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