Motivational Quotes

Courage

Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Courage

1.

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

2.

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

3.

'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

4.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

Smith, Sydney

8.

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

9.

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

10.

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

Weininger, Ben

11.

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

Collier, Jeremy

12.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

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

Bradbury, Ray

14.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

15.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

16.

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

17.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

18.

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

19.

Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

20.

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

Lao-Tzu

21.

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

22.

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!

23.

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

24.

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

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

28.

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

Luce, Timothy

29.

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

30.

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

Bernanos, Georges

31.

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

Greville, Lord

32.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Twain, Mark

36.

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

John Quincy Adams

37.

All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

38.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

39.

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

40.

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

41.

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

42.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

43.

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

44.

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

Anouilh, Jean

45.

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

John Wayne

46.

Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

47.

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

Anouilh, Jean

48.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

49.

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

Petit-Senn, John

50.

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