Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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

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

10.

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

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

12.

Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

13.

Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

'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

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.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Kirby Larson

19.

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

Disney, Walt

20.

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

21.

There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

22.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

23.

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

24.

The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

25.

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

26.

Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Clare Booth Luce

30.

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

31.

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

32.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

33.

Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

34.

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

35.

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

Taylor, Bayard

36.

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

Cicero

37.

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

Bradley, Omar

38.

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

39.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

40.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

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

Bible

42.

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

Anouilh, Jean

43.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

46.

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

47.

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

Hudson, William Henry

48.

Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

49.

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

50.

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

Richter, Jean Paul