Motivational Quotes

Courage

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Courage

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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

2.

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

3.

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

4.

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

Forbes, B. C.

5.

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

6.

To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

7.

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

Taylor, Bayard

8.

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

9.

I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

10.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

11.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

12.

You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

13.

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

Valois, Margaret

14.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

15.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

16.

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

Bradley, Omar

17.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

19.

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

Seneca

20.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

21.

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

Anouilh, Jean

22.

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

23.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

24.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Lao-Tzu

29.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

30.

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

31.

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

32.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

34.

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.

35.

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

36.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

37.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

38.

Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

40.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

41.

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

42.

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

43.

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

Kirby Larson

44.

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!

45.

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

Brown, Les

46.

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.

47.

If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

48.

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

49.

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

50.

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?