Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Seneca

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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

Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

10.

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

Bible

11.

We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

12.

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

Churchill, Winston

13.

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

14.

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

15.

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

Harold Wilson

16.

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

17.

Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

19.

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

Lawana Blackwell

20.

Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

21.

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

22.

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

23.

No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

24.

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

Thomson, James

25.

Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

26.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

27.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

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

E. M. Forster

31.

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

Worsham, James A.

32.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

33.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

34.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

35.

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

36.

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.

37.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

38.

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

39.

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

Corra Harris

40.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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.

44.

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

45.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

46.

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

Petit-Senn, John

47.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

48.

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

49.

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