Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Courage

1.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

2.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

3.

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

4.

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

Voltaire

5.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

6.

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

King, Basil

7.

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

Pollock, Channing

8.

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

Carroll, Lewis

9.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

10.

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

Lawana Blackwell

11.

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

12.

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

13.

Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

14.

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

Churchill, Winston

15.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

16.

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

17.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

18.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

19.

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

23.

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

24.

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

25.

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

E. M. Forster

26.

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

Bombeck, Erma

27.

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

28.

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

Ovid

29.

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

30.

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.

31.

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

Shakespeare, William

32.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

33.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

34.

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

35.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

36.

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

37.

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

38.

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

Anouilh, Jean

39.

Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

40.

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

Proverb

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.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

43.

The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

44.

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

45.

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

46.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

47.

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

Bible

48.

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

Collier, Jeremy

49.

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

50.

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