Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Courage

1.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

2.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

3.

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

4.

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

John Wayne

5.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

6.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

7.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

8.

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

Einstein, Albert

9.

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

10.

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

11.

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

Disney, Walt

12.

The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

13.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

14.

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

Anouilh, Jean

15.

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

Jean Paul Richter

16.

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

Tyger, Frank

17.

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

18.

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

19.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

20.

We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

21.

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

Mark Twain

22.

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

23.

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

25.

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

26.

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

Monson, Thomas S.

27.

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

28.

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

29.

The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

30.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

31.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

32.

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.

33.

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

34.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

35.

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

36.

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

Mark Twain

37.

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

Lawana Blackwell

38.

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

39.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

40.

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

Zapata, Emiliano

41.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

42.

The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

43.

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

44.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

45.

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

46.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

47.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

48.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

49.

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

50.

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