Motivational Quotes

Courage

You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

- Hudson, William Henry

Best Quotes about Courage

1.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

2.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

3.

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

4.

The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

5.

Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

6.

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

7.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

8.

No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

9.

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

Waitley, Denis

10.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

12.

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

13.

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

Horace

14.

The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

15.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

16.

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

Bombeck, Erma

17.

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

Churchill, Winston

18.

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

Churchill, Winston

19.

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

20.

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

21.

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

22.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

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

Bradbury, Ray

24.

Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

25.

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

26.

A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

27.

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

28.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

29.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

30.

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

31.

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

32.

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

Anouilh, Jean

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

36.

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

Collier, Jeremy

37.

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?

38.

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

John Wayne

39.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

40.

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

41.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

42.

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

43.

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

44.

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

45.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

46.

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

47.

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

48.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

49.

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

Greville, Lord

50.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca