Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

1.

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

Plutarch

2.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

3.

Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

4.

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

5.

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

6.

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

Thomson, James

7.

Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

8.

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

Bible

9.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

Johnson, John

11.

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

Luce, Timothy

12.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

13.

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

14.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

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

Einstein, Albert

16.

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

17.

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

18.

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

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

Smith, Sydney

20.

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

21.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

22.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

23.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

24.

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

25.

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

26.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

27.

All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

28.

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

29.

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

30.

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

Hudson, William Henry

31.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

32.

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

Churchill, Winston

33.

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

34.

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.

35.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

36.

A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

37.

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

38.

The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

39.

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

Eco, Umberto

40.

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

Clare Booth Luce

41.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

42.

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

43.

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

Barton, Bruce

44.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

45.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

46.

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

Zapata, Emiliano

47.

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

Kirby Larson

48.

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

49.

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.

50.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De