Motivational Quotes

Courage

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

- Ingersoll, Robert Green

Best Quotes about Courage

1.

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

Johnson, Samuel

2.

You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

3.

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

4.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

5.

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

Shakespeare, William

6.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

7.

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

8.

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

9.

Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

10.

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

Bradbury, Ray

11.

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

12.

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

13.

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

14.

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

Eco, Umberto

15.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

16.

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

Bombeck, Erma

17.

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

Luther, Martin

18.

The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

19.

No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

20.

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

E. M. Forster

21.

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

22.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

23.

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

Brown, Les

24.

The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

25.

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

Disney, Walt

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

28.

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

29.

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

30.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

31.

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

Churchill, Winston

32.

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

Tyger, Frank

33.

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

34.

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

35.

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

36.

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.

37.

Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

38.

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

39.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

40.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

42.

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

Valois, Margaret

43.

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

44.

The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

45.

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

46.

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

47.

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

48.

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

49.

I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

50.

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel