Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Bible

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

10.

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

Voltaire

11.

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.

12.

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

13.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

14.

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

15.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

16.

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!

17.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

18.

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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.

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

21.

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

Tyger, Frank

22.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

23.

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

24.

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

25.

We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

26.

Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

27.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

28.

The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

29.

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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Nin, Anais

31.

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.

32.

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

Menander of Athens

33.

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

34.

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

Smith, Sydney

35.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

36.

It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

37.

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

38.

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

Bradley, Omar

39.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

40.

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

Twain, Mark

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

42.

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

43.

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

Carnegie, Dale

44.

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

Johnson, Samuel

45.

I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

46.

Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

47.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Luther, Martin

49.

It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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