Motivational Quotes

Courage

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Courage

1.

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

2.

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

Ovid

3.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

4.

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

Disney, Walt

5.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

6.

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

William Shakespeare

7.

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

8.

Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

9.

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

Luther, Martin

10.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

11.

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

12.

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

Mark Twain

13.

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

Taylor, Bayard

14.

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

15.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

16.

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

17.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

19.

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

20.

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

Smith, Sydney

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Barton, Bruce

24.

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.

25.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

26.

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

Johnson, Samuel

27.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

28.

Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

29.

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

30.

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

Cicero

31.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

32.

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

33.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

34.

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

Bernanos, Georges

35.

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

36.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

37.

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

38.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

39.

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

40.

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

41.

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

Worsham, James A.

42.

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

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

Proverb

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.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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.