Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Courage

1.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

2.

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

3.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

4.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

5.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

6.

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

7.

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

8.

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

9.

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

10.

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

11.

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

Greville, Lord

12.

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

Horace

13.

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

Mark Twain

14.

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

Smith, Sydney

15.

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

16.

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

Joel, Billy

17.

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

18.

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

19.

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

Ovid

20.

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

Bible

21.

In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

22.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

23.

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

24.

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

Harold Wilson

25.

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

King, Basil

26.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

27.

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

Plutarch

28.

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.

29.

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

Brown, Les

30.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

31.

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

Anouilh, Jean

32.

No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

33.

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

Churchill, Winston

34.

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

Barton, Bruce

35.

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

36.

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

Voltaire

37.

I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

38.

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

Churchill, Winston

39.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

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

41.

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.

42.

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

Bible

43.

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

Monson, Thomas S.

44.

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

Bradbury, Ray

45.

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

46.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

47.

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

48.

'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

49.

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

50.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark