Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Weininger, Ben

Best Quotes about Courage

But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bible

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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

Greville, Lord

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Seneca

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

Carnegie, Dale

10.

Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

11.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

13.

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

14.

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

Euripides

15.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

16.

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Churchill, Winston

21.

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

22.

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

23.

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

24.

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

25.

The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

26.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

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

Valois, Margaret

28.

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

Adler, Freda

29.

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

Lao-Tzu

30.

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

Anouilh, Jean

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

34.

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

35.

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

Corra Harris

36.

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

37.

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

Twain, Mark

38.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

40.

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

41.

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

42.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

43.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

44.

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

Churchill, Winston

45.

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

46.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

47.

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

Luce, Timothy

48.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

49.

There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence