Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Johnson, John

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

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

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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.

10.

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

11.

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

Churchill, Winston

12.

It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

13.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

14.

He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

15.

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

Horace

16.

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

17.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

18.

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

19.

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

Eco, Umberto

20.

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

21.

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?

22.

There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

23.

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

24.

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

Greville, Lord

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

33.

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

34.

In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

35.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

36.

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

37.

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

Harold Wilson

38.

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

Hudson, William Henry

39.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

40.

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

41.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

42.

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

Churchill, Winston

43.

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

Brown, Les

44.

As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

45.

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

Ovid

46.

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

47.

With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

48.

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