Motivational Quotes

Courage

Be larger than your task.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Courage

1.

Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

2.

The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

3.

Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

4.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

5.

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

Bible

6.

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

Greville, Lord

7.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

8.

To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

9.

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

Bible

10.

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

11.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

12.

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

Pollock, Channing

13.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

14.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

16.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

17.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

18.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

19.

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.

20.

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

21.

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

22.

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

23.

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

24.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

25.

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

26.

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

Proverb

27.

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

Weininger, Ben

28.

Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

29.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

30.

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

31.

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

Luther, Martin

32.

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

Churchill, Winston

33.

You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

34.

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

35.

Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

36.

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

Thomas Fuller

37.

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

38.

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

39.

You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

40.

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

Anouilh, Jean

41.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

42.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

43.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

44.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

45.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

47.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

49.

It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

50.

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William