Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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.

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

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

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Eco, Umberto

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

10.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

11.

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

Luce, Timothy

12.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

13.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

14.

Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

15.

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

Weininger, Ben

16.

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

17.

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

18.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

20.

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

Ovid

21.

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

22.

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

23.

Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

24.

I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

25.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

'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

27.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

28.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

29.

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

30.

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

31.

When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

32.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

33.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

34.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

35.

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

Bernanos, Georges

36.

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

38.

Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

39.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

40.

Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

41.

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

42.

Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

43.

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

Anouilh, Jean

44.

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

Seneca

45.

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

46.

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.

47.

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

48.

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.

49.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

50.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.