Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Courage

1.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

2.

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

3.

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

Sherman, William T.

4.

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

Bible

5.

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

Churchill, Winston

6.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

7.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

8.

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

Thomas Fuller

9.

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

Joel, Billy

10.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

11.

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

12.

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

13.

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

14.

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

Eco, Umberto

15.

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

16.

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Weininger, Ben

21.

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

Evans, Richard L.

22.

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

23.

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

24.

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

Anouilh, Jean

25.

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

26.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

27.

But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

28.

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

29.

I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

30.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

31.

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

32.

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

33.

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

Mark Twain

34.

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

Adler, Freda

35.

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

36.

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

37.

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

38.

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

Mark Twain

39.

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

40.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

41.

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

42.

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

Einstein, Albert

43.

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

44.

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

Brown, Les

45.

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