Motivational Quotes

Courage

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Bible

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

10.

In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

11.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

12.

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

Zapata, Emiliano

13.

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

14.

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

Waitley, Denis

15.

No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

16.

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

17.

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

18.

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

19.

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

Luce, Timothy

20.

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

21.

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

22.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

23.

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

Smith, Sydney

24.

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.

25.

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

Mark Twain

26.

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

27.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

28.

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.

29.

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

30.

Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

31.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

32.

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

33.

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

34.

When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

35.

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

Anouilh, Jean

36.

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

Pollock, Channing

37.

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

Bernanos, Georges

38.

It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

39.

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

Twain, Mark

40.

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

41.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

43.

'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

44.

In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

45.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

46.

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

Seneca

47.

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

Voltaire

48.

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

49.

As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

50.

Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.