Motivational Quotes

Courage

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

- E. M. Forster

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Luce, Timothy

Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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

Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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

Seneca

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Johnson, Samuel

10.

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

11.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

12.

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

13.

Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

14.

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

15.

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

16.

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

17.

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

Carnegie, Dale

18.

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

Petit-Senn, John

19.

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

20.

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

21.

Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

22.

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

Forbes, B. C.

23.

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

Joel, Billy

24.

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

25.

Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

26.

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

Adler, Freda

27.

Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

28.

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

Jensen, Andrew

29.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

30.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

31.

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

Disney, Walt

32.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

33.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

34.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

35.

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

36.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

37.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

38.

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

Jean Paul Richter

39.

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

40.

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.

41.

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.

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

44.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

45.

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

46.

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

47.

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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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

49.

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

50.

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.