Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

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Best Quotes about Courage

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

Proverb

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

Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Plutarch

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

10.

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

Bible

11.

Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Lao-Tzu

14.

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

Mark Twain

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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.

18.

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

Voltaire

19.

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

20.

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

21.

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

22.

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

23.

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

Hudson, William Henry

24.

A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

28.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

29.

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

30.

Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

32.

Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

33.

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

34.

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

35.

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

36.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

37.

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

Seneca

38.

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

Bombeck, Erma

39.

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

Bible

40.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

41.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

42.

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

Weininger, Ben

43.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

44.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

45.

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

46.

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

47.

'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

48.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

49.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

50.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero