Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Courage

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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

2.

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

3.

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

4.

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

Bible

5.

All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

6.

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

7.

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

Lao-Tzu

8.

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

9.

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

10.

I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

11.

You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

12.

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

Collier, Jeremy

13.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

14.

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

Jensen, Andrew

15.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

16.

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

Plaut

17.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

18.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

19.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

23.

But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

24.

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

25.

Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

26.

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

Pollock, Channing

27.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

28.

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

Hudson, William Henry

29.

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.

30.

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

31.

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

32.

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

33.

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

34.

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.

Cicero, Marcus T.

35.

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

Johnson, Samuel

36.

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

Euripides

37.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

38.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

40.

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

Twain, Mark

41.

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

Churchill, Winston

42.

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

Bible

43.

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.

44.

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

45.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

46.

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

Bombeck, Erma

47.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

48.

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

49.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

50.

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

Luther, Martin