Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Eco, Umberto

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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

Euripides

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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

10.

Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

11.

The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

12.

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

Churchill, Winston

13.

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

14.

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

Barton, Bruce

15.

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

Jensen, Andrew

16.

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.

17.

Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

18.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

19.

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

20.

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

Bible

21.

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

22.

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

Petit-Senn, John

23.

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

Brown, Les

24.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

25.

You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

29.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

30.

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

31.

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

32.

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

33.

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

34.

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.

35.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

36.

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

37.

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

38.

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

Luther, Martin

39.

No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

40.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Taylor, Elizabeth