Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

- Macleod, Norman

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Bible

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

Pollock, Channing

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

Menander of Athens

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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.

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

Battista, D.A.

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

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

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

10.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

12.

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

Twain, Mark

13.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

14.

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

Joel, Billy

15.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

16.

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

Anouilh, Jean

17.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

18.

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

19.

Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

21.

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

Adler, Freda

22.

Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

23.

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

Plaut

24.

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

25.

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

26.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

27.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

28.

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

29.

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.

30.

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

Greville, Lord

31.

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

32.

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

33.

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

34.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

35.

Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

36.

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

Jean Paul Richter

37.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

38.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

40.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

41.

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

42.

Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

44.

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

45.

We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

46.

I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

47.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

48.

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

Carroll, Lewis

49.

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.