Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Jean Paul Richter

Best Quotes about Courage

1.

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

2.

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

Mark Twain

3.

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

Lawana Blackwell

4.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

5.

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

6.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

7.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

Bible

11.

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

12.

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

Disney, Walt

13.

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

Proverb

14.

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

Menander of Athens

15.

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

16.

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.

17.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

18.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

19.

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

E. M. Forster

20.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

21.

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

Ellinger, Jules

22.

Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

23.

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

24.

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

Thomas Fuller

25.

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

26.

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

Adler, Freda

27.

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

Thomson, James

28.

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

Ovid

29.

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

30.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

31.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

32.

Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

33.

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

34.

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

Bradley, Omar

35.

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

36.

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

37.

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

Mark Twain

38.

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

Twain, Mark

39.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

40.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

42.

Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

43.

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

44.

All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

45.

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

46.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

47.

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

48.

In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

49.

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

50.

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