Motivational Quotes

Courage

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

- Watson, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Courage

1.

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

2.

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

3.

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

Sherman, William T.

4.

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

5.

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

6.

The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

Churchill, Winston

10.

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

Joel, Billy

11.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

12.

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

13.

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

14.

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

15.

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

Kirby Larson

16.

Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

17.

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.

18.

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

Thomson, James

19.

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.

20.

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

Johnson, Samuel

21.

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

Horace

22.

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

Harold Wilson

23.

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

Adler, Freda

24.

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

Disney, Walt

25.

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

26.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

27.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

28.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

29.

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

30.

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

31.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

32.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

33.

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

34.

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

Hudson, William Henry

35.

The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

36.

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

37.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

38.

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

Valois, Margaret

39.

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

Bible

40.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

41.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

43.

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

44.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

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

Mark Twain

46.

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

47.

It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

48.

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

49.

You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

50.

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

Plutarch