Motivational Quotes

Courage

It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Bible

It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Thomson, James

10.

We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

11.

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

Clare Booth Luce

12.

He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

13.

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

Battista, D.A.

14.

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

15.

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

Churchill, Winston

16.

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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.

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

19.

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

Jean Paul Richter

20.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

21.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

23.

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

24.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

25.

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.

26.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

27.

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

28.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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

32.

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

33.

Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

36.

Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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

39.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

41.

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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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

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

45.

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

47.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

48.

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

49.

We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

50.

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