Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Anouilh, Jean

Best Quotes about Courage

1.

I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

2.

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

Churchill, Winston

3.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

4.

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

5.

A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

6.

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

Adler, Freda

7.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

8.

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

9.

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

Carnegie, Dale

10.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

11.

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

Young, Owen D.

12.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

14.

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

Anouilh, Jean

15.

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

16.

With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

17.

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

18.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

19.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

20.

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

21.

Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

22.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

23.

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

Luce, Timothy

24.

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

Corra Harris

25.

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

26.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

27.

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

Bible

28.

What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

29.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

30.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

31.

We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

32.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

33.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

34.

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

Thomson, James

35.

It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

36.

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.

37.

Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

38.

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

39.

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

40.

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

41.

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

Sherman, William T.

42.

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

Harold Wilson

43.

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

44.

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

45.

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

Battista, D.A.

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.

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

48.

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

49.

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

Euripides

50.

One who lacks courage to start has already finished