Motivational Quotes

Courage

If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Barton, Bruce

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

Carlyle, Thomas

The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shakespeare, William

10.

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

11.

Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

12.

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

Bible

13.

To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

14.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

15.

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

16.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

17.

Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

18.

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

19.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

20.

It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

21.

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

22.

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

Eco, Umberto

23.

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

Corra Harris

24.

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

Disney, Walt

25.

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

Weininger, Ben

26.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

27.

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

Tyger, Frank

28.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

29.

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

30.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

31.

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

32.

Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

33.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

34.

With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

35.

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

36.

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

Seneca

37.

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

Anouilh, Jean

38.

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

Twain, Mark

39.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

40.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

41.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

42.

There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

43.

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

Proverb

44.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

45.

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

Twain, Mark

46.

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

47.

Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

48.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

49.

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

50.

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

John Wayne