Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Kennedy, Robert F.

Best Quotes about Courage

1.

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

Churchill, Winston

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

Collier, Jeremy

5.

But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

6.

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

Mark Twain

7.

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

8.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

9.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

11.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

12.

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

Bradley, Omar

13.

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

Smith, Sydney

14.

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

15.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

17.

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

18.

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

19.

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

Kirby Larson

20.

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

Petit-Senn, John

21.

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

22.

I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

23.

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

24.

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

Eco, Umberto

25.

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

26.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

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

Seneca

28.

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

Monson, Thomas S.

29.

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

30.

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

31.

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

32.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

33.

I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

34.

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

35.

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

36.

In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

37.

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

Bradbury, Ray

38.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

39.

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

Johnson, John

40.

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

41.

Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

42.

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

Horace

43.

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

44.

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

45.

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

46.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

47.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

48.

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

Luther, Martin

49.

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

50.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt