Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Courage

Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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

What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

10.

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

13.

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

14.

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

15.

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

16.

When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

17.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

18.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

19.

Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

20.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

21.

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

Thomson, James

22.

Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

23.

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

Smith, Sydney

24.

When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

25.

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.

26.

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

John Quincy Adams

27.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

29.

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

30.

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

31.

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

32.

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

Greville, Lord

33.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

34.

Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

35.

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

36.

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

37.

'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

38.

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

Bible

39.

Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

40.

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

41.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

42.

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

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.

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

45.

A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

46.

The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

47.

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

Kirby Larson

48.

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

Sherman, William T.

49.

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

50.

Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von