Motivational Quotes

Courage

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.

Best Quotes about Courage

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

'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

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Harold Wilson

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

10.

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

11.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

13.

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

Forbes, B. C.

14.

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

Luther, Martin

15.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

16.

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

17.

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

Seneca

18.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

19.

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.

20.

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

Disney, Walt

21.

There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

22.

I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

23.

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

Bradbury, Ray

24.

Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

28.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

29.

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

Johnson, Samuel

30.

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

Voltaire

31.

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

32.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

33.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

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

Adler, Freda

35.

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

36.

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

Battista, D.A.

37.

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

38.

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

39.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

40.

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

Plaut

41.

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

Bible

42.

Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

43.

To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

44.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

45.

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

46.

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

47.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

48.

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

49.

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

Sherman, William T.

50.

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

Carnegie, Dale