Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

1.

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

Carnegie, Dale

2.

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

Plutarch

3.

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

4.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

5.

Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

6.

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

7.

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

8.

Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

9.

Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

10.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

11.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

12.

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

Shakespeare, William

13.

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

14.

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

15.

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

16.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

17.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

18.

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

19.

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

20.

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

21.

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

22.

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

23.

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

24.

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

25.

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

Cicero

26.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

27.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

28.

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

Greville, Lord

29.

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

Sherman, William T.

30.

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

32.

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

33.

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

Bradley, Omar

34.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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.

38.

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

39.

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

40.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

41.

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

Eco, Umberto

42.

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

43.

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

44.

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

45.

Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

46.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

48.

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