Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

- Rodman, Frances

Best Quotes about Courage

1.

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

2.

A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

3.

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

Cicero

4.

The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

5.

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

6.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

7.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

8.

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

Euripides

9.

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

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.

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

Churchill, Winston

12.

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

13.

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

Smith, Sydney

14.

Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

15.

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

16.

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

Carroll, Lewis

17.

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

18.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

19.

Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

20.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

21.

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

22.

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

23.

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

24.

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

Kirby Larson

25.

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

Hudson, William Henry

26.

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

27.

Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

28.

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

Adler, Freda

29.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

30.

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

31.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

32.

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

33.

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

Luther, Martin

34.

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

Pollock, Channing

35.

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

36.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

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

38.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

39.

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

40.

Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

41.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

42.

'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

43.

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

44.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

45.

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

46.

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

Carnegie, Dale

47.

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

Eco, Umberto

48.

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

49.

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

50.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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