Motivational Quotes

Courage

Part of courage is simple consistency.

- Noonan, Peggy

Best Quotes about Courage

1.

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

2.

I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

3.

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

4.

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

5.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

6.

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

7.

As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

8.

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

9.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

15.

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

Barton, Bruce

16.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

17.

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

Disney, Walt

18.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

19.

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

Eco, Umberto

20.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

21.

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

Luce, Timothy

22.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

23.

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

Twain, Mark

24.

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

25.

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

Ovid

26.

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

27.

A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

28.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

29.

I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

30.

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

31.

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

32.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

33.

I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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.

37.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

38.

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

39.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

40.

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

41.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

42.

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

43.

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

44.

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

45.

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

46.

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

47.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

49.

Part of courage is simple consistency.