Motivational Quotes

Courage

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Courage

1.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

2.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

3.

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

Churchill, Winston

4.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

5.

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

Anouilh, Jean

6.

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

7.

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

8.

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

9.

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

Churchill, Winston

10.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

11.

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

12.

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

13.

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

King, Basil

14.

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

Smith, Sydney

15.

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

Disney, Walt

16.

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.

17.

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

Worsham, James A.

18.

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

19.

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

Menander of Athens

20.

Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

21.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

22.

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

Voltaire

23.

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

24.

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

Twain, Mark

25.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

26.

The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

27.

Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

28.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

29.

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

30.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

31.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

32.

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

33.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

34.

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

35.

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

Churchill, Winston

36.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Seneca

40.

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

41.

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

42.

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

Seneca

43.

You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

44.

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

45.

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

Shakespeare, William

46.

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

47.

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

48.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

49.

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

50.

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.