Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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

E. M. Forster

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Bernanos, Georges

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

10.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

11.

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

12.

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

Euripides

13.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

14.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

15.

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

Kirby Larson

16.

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

Tyger, Frank

17.

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

Ellinger, Jules

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

20.

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

Weininger, Ben

21.

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

22.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

23.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

24.

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

Churchill, Winston

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

Horace

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

30.

A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

31.

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

Proverb

32.

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

Greville, Lord

33.

Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

34.

Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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

Bible

36.

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

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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

38.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

40.

Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

41.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

43.

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

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

45.

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

46.

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

47.

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

48.

You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

49.

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

50.

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