Motivational Quotes

Courage

Fortune favors the brave.

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Courage

1.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

2.

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.

3.

As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

4.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

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

Cicero

6.

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

7.

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

8.

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

Corra Harris

9.

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

Greville, Lord

10.

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

11.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

12.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

Churchill, Winston

15.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

16.

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

Bible

17.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

18.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Forbes, B. C.

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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.

26.

A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

27.

'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

28.

'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

29.

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

Joel, Billy

30.

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

31.

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

32.

The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

33.

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

Churchill, Winston

34.

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

Voltaire

35.

Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

36.

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

37.

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

Anouilh, Jean

38.

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

39.

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

Disney, Walt

40.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

41.

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

42.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

43.

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

44.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

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

Twain, Mark

46.

When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

47.

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

48.

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.

49.

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

50.

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

Smith, Sydney