Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

1.

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

Greville, Lord

2.

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

3.

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.

4.

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

5.

It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

6.

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

7.

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

8.

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

9.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

15.

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

16.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

17.

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

18.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

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

Corra Harris

24.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.

Twain, Mark

25.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

26.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

27.

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

Worsham, James A.

28.

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

Plaut

29.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

33.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

34.

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

35.

Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

36.

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

37.

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

38.

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

39.

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

Anouilh, Jean

40.

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

Churchill, Winston

41.

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

42.

You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

43.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

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

Churchill, Winston

45.

What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

46.

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

Ellinger, Jules

47.

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

48.

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

49.

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

50.

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