Motivational Quotes

Courage

Fortune and love favor the brave.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Courage

1.

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

Greville, Lord

2.

Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

3.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

4.

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

John Wayne

5.

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

6.

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

Voltaire

7.

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

Cicero

8.

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

King, Basil

9.

Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

10.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

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

Carnegie, Dale

12.

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

13.

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

14.

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

Luce, Timothy

15.

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

Anouilh, Jean

16.

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

Joel, Billy

17.

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

18.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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

Hudson, William Henry

20.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

21.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

23.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

24.

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

Bradley, Omar

25.

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

26.

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

Barton, Bruce

27.

In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

28.

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

29.

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

30.

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

Battista, D.A.

31.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

32.

I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

33.

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

34.

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

35.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

36.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

37.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

38.

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

39.

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

40.

To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

41.

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

Carroll, Lewis

42.

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

Worsham, James A.

43.

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.