Motivational Quotes

Courage

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.

Best Quotes about Courage

1.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

2.

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

3.

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

Brown, Les

4.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

5.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

6.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

7.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

8.

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

Eco, Umberto

9.

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

Hudson, William Henry

10.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

11.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

13.

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

Sherman, William T.

14.

A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

15.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

16.

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

17.

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

18.

As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

19.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

20.

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

21.

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

Kirby Larson

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

26.

All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

27.

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

Waitley, Denis

28.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

29.

'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

30.

True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

31.

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

32.

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

Twain, Mark

33.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

34.

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

35.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

36.

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

37.

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

38.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

39.

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

Bible

40.

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

41.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

42.

In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

43.

The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

44.

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

45.

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

Corra Harris

46.

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

Forbes, B. C.

47.

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

Monson, Thomas S.

48.

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.

49.

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

Greville, Lord

50.

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