Motivational Quotes

Courage

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

- Corra Harris

Best Quotes about Courage

1.

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

Churchill, Winston

2.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

3.

In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

4.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

5.

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

Monson, Thomas S.

6.

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

7.

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

8.

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

Tyger, Frank

9.

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

Brown, Les

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

12.

You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

13.

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

Mark Twain

14.

'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

15.

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

16.

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

17.

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

18.

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

19.

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

Petit-Senn, John

20.

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

21.

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

22.

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

23.

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

24.

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

25.

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

Plutarch

26.

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

27.

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

28.

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

Taylor, Bayard

29.

Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

30.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

32.

If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

33.

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

34.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

35.

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

36.

Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

37.

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

41.

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

42.

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

Thomson, James

43.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

45.

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

Jean Paul Richter

46.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

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

Anouilh, Jean

48.

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

Einstein, Albert

49.

The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

50.

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