Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Roosevelt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Proverb

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.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

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

Twain, Mark

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.

10.

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

11.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

12.

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

13.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

14.

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

Barton, Bruce

15.

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

16.

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

Waitley, Denis

17.

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

18.

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

Zapata, Emiliano

19.

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

20.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

Jean Paul Richter

22.

Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

26.

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

Bernanos, Georges

27.

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

Karr, Alphonse

28.

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

29.

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.

30.

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

31.

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

Young, Owen D.

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

Bible

34.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

35.

'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

36.

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

37.

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

Mark Twain

38.

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

39.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

40.

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

41.

No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

42.

If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

43.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

45.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

46.

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

Corra Harris

47.

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

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

49.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

50.

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas