Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Ellinger, Jules

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Richter, Jean Paul

I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

10.

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

Jean Paul Richter

11.

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

12.

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

Eco, Umberto

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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.

16.

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

17.

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

18.

Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

19.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

20.

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

21.

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

Lawana Blackwell

22.

No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

23.

It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

24.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

25.

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

26.

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

27.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

30.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

31.

Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

32.

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

Bible

33.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

34.

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

35.

Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

36.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

37.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

38.

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

Luther, Martin

39.

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

40.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

41.

He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

42.

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

Churchill, Winston

43.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

44.

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.

45.

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

46.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

47.

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

Bible

48.

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

49.

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

50.

I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William