Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Bible

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.

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Shakespeare, William

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

11.

Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

12.

You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

13.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

14.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

15.

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

Johnson, Samuel

16.

Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

17.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

21.

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

Monson, Thomas S.

22.

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

23.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

Twain, Mark

26.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

27.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

28.

It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

29.

When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

30.

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

31.

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

32.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

33.

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Waitley, Denis

38.

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

Tyger, Frank

39.

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