Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

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

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

10.

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

Voltaire

11.

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

Seneca

12.

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

Worsham, James A.

13.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

14.

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

Menander of Athens

15.

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

Shakespeare, William

16.

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

17.

It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

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

Twain, Mark

19.

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

20.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

21.

There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

22.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

23.

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

24.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

25.

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

Mark Twain

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

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.

28.

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

Anouilh, Jean

29.

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

30.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

31.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

32.

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

33.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

34.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

35.

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

36.

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

37.

'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

38.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

39.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

41.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

42.

Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

43.

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

44.

Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

45.

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

46.

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

47.

Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

48.

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

49.

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

50.

A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson