Motivational Quotes

Courage

Fortune favors the brave.

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Courage

1.

I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

2.

It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

3.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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.

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

6.

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

Mark Twain

7.

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

8.

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

9.

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

10.

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

Joel, Billy

11.

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

15.

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

Kirby Larson

16.

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

Bible

17.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

18.

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

Luther, Martin

19.

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

Bernanos, Georges

20.

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

Menander of Athens

21.

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

Greville, Lord

22.

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

23.

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

24.

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

Plaut

25.

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

Pollock, Channing

26.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

27.

A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

28.

I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

29.

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?

30.

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

31.

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

32.

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

Hudson, William Henry

33.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

34.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

37.

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

38.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

39.

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

40.

It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

41.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

42.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

43.

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

44.

'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

45.

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

46.

The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

47.

No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.