Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

1.

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

2.

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

William Shakespeare

3.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

4.

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.

5.

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

6.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

7.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

8.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

9.

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

10.

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

11.

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

Mark Twain

12.

Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

13.

True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

14.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

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

Bible

16.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

17.

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

Joel, Billy

18.

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

19.

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

20.

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

Twain, Mark

21.

A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

22.

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

23.

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

Greville, Lord

24.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

27.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

28.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

29.

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

Shakespeare, William

30.

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

Bombeck, Erma

31.

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

32.

'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

33.

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

34.

He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

35.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

36.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

37.

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

Hudson, William Henry

38.

Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

39.

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

40.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

41.

No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

42.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

44.

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

45.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

46.

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

Churchill, Winston

47.

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

48.

Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

49.

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

50.

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.