Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Joel, Billy

Best Quotes about Courage

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.

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

'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

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

Bradley, Omar

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

Schuller, Robert H.

10.

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

Disney, Walt

11.

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

Collier, Jeremy

12.

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

13.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

14.

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

Twain, Mark

15.

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

16.

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

17.

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

18.

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

19.

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

King, Basil

20.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Bible

24.

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

27.

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

28.

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

Jean Paul Richter

29.

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

Thomas Fuller

30.

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

Tyger, Frank

31.

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

Ovid

32.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

33.

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

Proverb

34.

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

Plaut

35.

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

36.

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

37.

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

38.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

39.

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

Churchill, Winston

40.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

Bible

42.

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

Sherman, William T.

43.

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

Luther, Martin

44.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

45.

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

46.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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

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

Greville, Lord

49.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Cervantes, Miguel De