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

1.

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

Adler, Freda

2.

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.

3.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

4.

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

5.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

6.

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

7.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

8.

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

9.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

10.

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

Luce, Timothy

11.

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

12.

To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

13.

'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

14.

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

Churchill, Winston

15.

I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

16.

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

17.

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

Shakespeare, William

18.

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

19.

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

20.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

21.

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

22.

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

23.

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

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

Churchill, Winston

28.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

29.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

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

Harold Wilson

31.

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

32.

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

33.

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

34.

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

35.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

36.

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

37.

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

38.

It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

39.

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

40.

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

Bible

41.

Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

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