Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Kennedy, Robert F.

Best Quotes about Courage

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.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Twain, Mark

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

Ovid

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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.

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

Einstein, Albert

10.

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

Voltaire

11.

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

12.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

13.

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

14.

If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

15.

It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S�ren

16.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

17.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

18.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

19.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

20.

'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

26.

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

Bible

27.

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

31.

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

32.

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

33.

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

King, Basil

34.

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

Proverb

35.

I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

36.

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

37.

You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

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

Greville, Lord

40.

The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

41.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

42.

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

Disney, Walt

43.

As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

44.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

45.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

46.

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

47.

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

48.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

49.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb