Motivational Quotes

Courage

There's no substitute for guts.

- Bryant, Bear

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Einstein, Albert

Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

'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

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

10.

In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

11.

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

12.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

13.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

14.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

15.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

16.

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

17.

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

Bradley, Omar

18.

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.

19.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

20.

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

21.

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

Greville, Lord

22.

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

Bernanos, Georges

23.

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

25.

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

Smith, Sydney

26.

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

Worsham, James A.

27.

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

Twain, Mark

28.

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

29.

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

Bradbury, Ray

30.

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

31.

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

Johnson, Samuel

32.

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

33.

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

34.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

35.

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

Seneca

36.

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

Brown, Les

37.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

38.

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

39.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

40.

Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

41.

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

42.

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

Mark Twain

43.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

44.

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

45.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

46.

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

Jean Paul Richter

47.

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

48.

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

Churchill, Winston

49.

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

50.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore