Motivational Quotes

Courage

Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

- Hart, Oliver J.

Best Quotes about Courage

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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

Bible

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.

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

Barton, Bruce

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Kirby Larson

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

Waitley, Denis

15.

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

16.

I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

17.

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

Carnegie, Dale

18.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

19.

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

Brown, Les

20.

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

Mark Twain

21.

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

22.

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

23.

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?

24.

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

25.

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

26.

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

Bernanos, Georges

27.

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

Euripides

28.

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

29.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

30.

Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

31.

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

32.

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

Proverb

33.

Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

38.

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

Johnson, John

39.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

40.

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

Eco, Umberto

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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

45.

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

46.

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

Bible

47.

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

Sherman, William T.

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

Ovid

49.

Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas