Motivational Quotes

Courage

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.

Best Quotes about Courage

1.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

2.

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

3.

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

4.

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

Sherman, William T.

5.

It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

6.

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

7.

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

8.

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

Luce, Timothy

9.

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

Jean Paul Richter

10.

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

11.

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

Weininger, Ben

12.

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

13.

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

14.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

15.

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

16.

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

17.

Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

18.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

19.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

20.

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

Smith, Sydney

21.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

22.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

23.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

24.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

25.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

26.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

27.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

28.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

30.

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

31.

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

Twain, Mark

32.

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

33.

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

Ellinger, Jules

34.

'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

35.

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

Horace

36.

I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

37.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

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.

39.

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

40.

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

41.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

42.

I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

43.

If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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.

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

46.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

47.

The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston