Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Courage

1.

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

2.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

3.

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

4.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

5.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

6.

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

Twain, Mark

7.

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

8.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

9.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

10.

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

11.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

12.

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

13.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

14.

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

Anouilh, Jean

15.

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

Churchill, Winston

16.

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

17.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

Luther, Martin

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Young, Owen D.

22.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

23.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

24.

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

Einstein, Albert

25.

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

Taylor, Bayard

26.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

27.

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

Johnson, Samuel

28.

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

Clare Booth Luce

29.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

30.

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

Carroll, Lewis

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Churchill, Winston

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.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

36.

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

37.

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

38.

The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

39.

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

40.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

41.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

43.

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.

44.

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?

45.

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

46.

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

Plaut

47.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

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

Jensen, Andrew

49.

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