Motivational Quotes

Courage

As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

- Norton, Andre

Best Quotes about Courage

1.

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

Anouilh, Jean

2.

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

Eco, Umberto

3.

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

4.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

5.

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

6.

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

Proverb

7.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

8.

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

9.

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

Bombeck, Erma

10.

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

Shakespeare, William

11.

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

12.

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

Churchill, Winston

13.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

14.

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

Carroll, Lewis

15.

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

16.

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

Churchill, Winston

17.

I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

18.

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

19.

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

Barton, Bruce

20.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

21.

A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

22.

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

23.

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

29.

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

Cicero

30.

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

Twain, Mark

31.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

32.

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

33.

A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

34.

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

35.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

37.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

38.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

39.

Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

40.

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

41.

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

Carnegie, Dale

42.

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

43.

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

44.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

45.

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

46.

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

47.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

48.

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

Kirby Larson

49.

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

50.

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