Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

1.

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

Monson, Thomas S.

2.

Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

3.

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

John Wayne

4.

Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

5.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

6.

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

7.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

8.

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

9.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

10.

Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

11.

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

12.

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

13.

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

Twain, Mark

14.

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

15.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

16.

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

17.

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

Shakespeare, William

18.

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

19.

'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

Einstein, Albert

21.

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

22.

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

Weininger, Ben

23.

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

24.

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

25.

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

26.

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

27.

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

28.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

30.

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

31.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

32.

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

John Quincy Adams

33.

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

34.

There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

35.

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

Bradbury, Ray

36.

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

37.

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

39.

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

Carnegie, Dale

40.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

41.

Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

42.

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

43.

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

44.

Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

45.

Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

47.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

48.

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!

49.

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

50.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph