Motivational Quotes

Courage

I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

- Johnson, John

Best Quotes about Courage

1.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

2.

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

3.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

4.

The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

5.

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

6.

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

Battista, D.A.

7.

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

8.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

9.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

10.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

11.

Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

12.

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

Luce, Timothy

13.

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

14.

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

15.

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

Churchill, Winston

16.

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

17.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

18.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

19.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

20.

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

21.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

22.

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

23.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

24.

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

25.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

26.

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

Twain, Mark

27.

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.

28.

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

Churchill, Winston

29.

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

Thomson, James

30.

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

31.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

32.

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

Adler, Freda

33.

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

34.

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

Brown, Les

35.

Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

41.

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.

42.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

43.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

44.

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

Anouilh, Jean

45.

We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

46.

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

Greville, Lord

47.

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

48.

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

49.

The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

50.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von