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.

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

2.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

3.

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

Bradbury, Ray

4.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

5.

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

6.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

7.

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

8.

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

9.

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

10.

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

Voltaire

11.

Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

12.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

13.

Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

14.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

15.

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

Jean Paul Richter

16.

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

17.

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

18.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

19.

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

20.

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

21.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

22.

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

23.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

24.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

25.

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

26.

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

27.

A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

28.

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

Tyger, Frank

29.

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

Harold Wilson

30.

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

Proverb

31.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

32.

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

Johnson, Samuel

33.

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

34.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

35.

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

36.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

37.

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

Twain, Mark

38.

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

39.

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

Churchill, Winston

40.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

41.

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

42.

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

43.

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

Thomas Fuller

44.

No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

45.

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

Anouilh, Jean

46.

With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

47.

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

Thomson, James

48.

A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.