Motivational Quotes

Courage

In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

- Musashi, Miyamoto

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Brown, Les

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Luther, Martin

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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

Bombeck, Erma

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Menander of Athens

10.

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

11.

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

12.

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

13.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

15.

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

16.

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

Young, Owen D.

17.

There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

18.

Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

19.

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

20.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

21.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

22.

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

Monson, Thomas S.

23.

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

24.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

25.

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

Thomas Fuller

26.

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

27.

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

Hudson, William Henry

28.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

29.

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

30.

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

Disney, Walt

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

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

Zapata, Emiliano

34.

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

35.

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

37.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

38.

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

39.

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

40.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston