Motivational Quotes

Courage

Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

- Maltz, Maxwell

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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

Menander of Athens

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

Disney, Walt

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

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

Bible

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

10.

If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

11.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

12.

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.

13.

What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

14.

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.

15.

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?

16.

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

Smith, Sydney

17.

I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

18.

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

19.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

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

21.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

22.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

23.

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

Carnegie, Dale

24.

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

25.

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

26.

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

27.

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

28.

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

29.

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

30.

Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

31.

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

32.

The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

33.

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

34.

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

35.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

36.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

37.

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

38.

The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

39.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

40.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

41.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

42.

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

46.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

47.

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

48.

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

Petit-Senn, John

49.

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

50.

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

Thomas Fuller