Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

- Plutarch

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Shakespeare, William

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

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Corra Harris

10.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

11.

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

Voltaire

12.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

14.

The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

15.

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

Bible

16.

Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

17.

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

18.

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

19.

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

20.

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

21.

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

Euripides

22.

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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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

24.

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

25.

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

26.

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

Carnegie, Dale

27.

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

28.

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

29.

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

30.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

31.

Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

33.

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

Bernanos, Georges

34.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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.

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

Churchill, Winston

37.

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

38.

The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

39.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

40.

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

Menander of Athens

41.

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

Johnson, John

42.

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.

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

Shakespeare, William

44.

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

45.

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

46.

When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

47.

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

48.

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

49.

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

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David