Motivational Quotes

Courage

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

- Stone, W. Clement

Best Quotes about Courage

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Thomas Fuller

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

10.

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

Churchill, Winston

11.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

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

Luce, Timothy

13.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

14.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

15.

The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

16.

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

17.

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

Carnegie, Dale

18.

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

Smith, Sydney

19.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

20.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

21.

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

22.

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

Corra Harris

23.

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.

24.

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

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.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

27.

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

Anouilh, Jean

28.

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

Worsham, James A.

29.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

30.

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

Churchill, Winston

31.

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

32.

Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

33.

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

Mark Twain

34.

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

Lawana Blackwell

35.

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.

36.

I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

37.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

38.

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

Barton, Bruce

39.

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

40.

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

Pollock, Channing

41.

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

42.

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

Karr, Alphonse

43.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

44.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

45.

Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

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

47.

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

Zapata, Emiliano

48.

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

49.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

50.

Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.