Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

1.

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

2.

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

Bernanos, Georges

3.

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

4.

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

5.

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

6.

It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

7.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

8.

Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

9.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

Thomson, James

11.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

12.

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

Waitley, Denis

13.

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

14.

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

Bible

15.

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

16.

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

17.

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.

18.

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

19.

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

20.

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

Smith, Sydney

21.

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

22.

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

23.

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

24.

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

25.

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

Petit-Senn, John

26.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

27.

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

28.

He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

29.

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

Greville, Lord

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.

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

Carnegie, Dale

32.

In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

33.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

34.

What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

35.

It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

36.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

37.

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

38.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

39.

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

40.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

41.

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

42.

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

43.

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

Anouilh, Jean

44.

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

E. M. Forster

45.

True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

46.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

47.

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

48.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

49.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

50.

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell