Motivational Quotes

Courage

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

- Taylor, Bayard

Best Quotes about Courage

1.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

2.

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

Collier, Jeremy

3.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

4.

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

5.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

6.

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

Mark Twain

7.

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

8.

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?

9.

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

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

12.

The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

13.

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

14.

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

Voltaire

15.

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

Jean Paul Richter

16.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

21.

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

Bible

22.

Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

23.

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

Pollock, Channing

24.

Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

25.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

26.

Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

27.

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

Mark Twain

28.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

29.

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

30.

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

31.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

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

33.

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

34.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

35.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

36.

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

37.

Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

38.

Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

39.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

40.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

41.

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

Smith, Sydney

42.

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

43.

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

Carnegie, Dale

44.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

45.

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

46.

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

Proverb

47.

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

48.

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

49.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear