Motivational Quotes

Courage

I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

- Worsham, James A.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Lao-Tzu

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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

Horace

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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

I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

10.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

11.

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

Sherman, William T.

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Battista, D.A.

16.

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

Carnegie, Dale

17.

I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

18.

Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

19.

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

20.

If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

21.

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

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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

23.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

24.

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

John Quincy Adams

25.

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

26.

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

Tyger, Frank

27.

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.

28.

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

29.

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

Bradbury, Ray

30.

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

Weininger, Ben

31.

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

32.

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

Valois, Margaret

33.

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

34.

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

35.

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

36.

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

37.

True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

38.

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

Bible

39.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

40.

Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

41.

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

42.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

44.

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

45.

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

Disney, Walt

46.

You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North