Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

1.

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

2.

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

Mark Twain

3.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

4.

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

5.

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

Euripides

6.

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

Brown, Les

7.

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

8.

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

Seneca

9.

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

10.

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

11.

A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

12.

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

Bernanos, Georges

13.

Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

14.

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

15.

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

16.

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

17.

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

18.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

19.

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.

20.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

21.

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

Hudson, William Henry

22.

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

Bible

23.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

24.

You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

25.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

26.

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

27.

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

28.

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

Collier, Jeremy

29.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

30.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

31.

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

32.

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

33.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

34.

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

Lawana Blackwell

35.

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

36.

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.

37.

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

John Wayne

38.

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

Young, Owen D.

39.

Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

40.

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

41.

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

42.

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

43.

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

44.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

45.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

46.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

47.

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

48.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

49.

The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

50.

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert