Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Valois, Margaret

Best Quotes about Courage

Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Thomson, James

10.

The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

11.

I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

12.

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

Kirby Larson

13.

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

14.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

15.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

16.

A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

17.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

18.

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

19.

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

Lawana Blackwell

20.

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

21.

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

Jensen, Andrew

22.

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

Jean Paul Richter

23.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

24.

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

Churchill, Winston

25.

The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

26.

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

27.

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

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

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

30.

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

31.

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

32.

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

33.

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.

34.

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

Bradbury, Ray

35.

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

Euripides

36.

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

Ovid

37.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

38.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

39.

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

40.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

41.

He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

42.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

43.

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

Joel, Billy

44.

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.

45.

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

46.

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

47.

It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

48.

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

49.

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

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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel