Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Courage

1.

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

Bradbury, Ray

2.

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

3.

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

Johnson, John

4.

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

Shakespeare, William

5.

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

6.

No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

7.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

8.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

9.

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

10.

Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

11.

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

12.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

13.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

14.

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

Twain, Mark

15.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

16.

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

Bradley, Omar

17.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

18.

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

19.

The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

20.

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

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.

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

23.

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

24.

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

Brown, Les

25.

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

Ovid

26.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

27.

'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

28.

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

29.

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

30.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

31.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

32.

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

Tyger, Frank

33.

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

34.

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

35.

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

Ovid

36.

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

37.

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

38.

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

Smith, Sydney

39.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

40.

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

41.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

42.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

43.

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

Eco, Umberto

44.

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

Anouilh, Jean

45.

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

Churchill, Winston

46.

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

Ellinger, Jules

47.

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

48.

The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

49.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

50.

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