Motivational Quotes

Courage

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Twain, Mark

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

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Plaut

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

10.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

11.

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

12.

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

13.

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

14.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

15.

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

16.

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

Jensen, Andrew

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Voltaire

20.

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

21.

'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

22.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

23.

It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

24.

Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

26.

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

Thomas Fuller

27.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

28.

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

29.

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

Ellinger, Jules

30.

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

Collier, Jeremy

31.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

32.

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

Bombeck, Erma

33.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

34.

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

35.

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

36.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

37.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

38.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

39.

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

40.

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

41.

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

42.

Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

43.

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

44.

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.

45.

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

Bradley, Omar

46.

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

47.

It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

48.

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

49.

Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

50.

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

Adler, Freda