Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

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

Churchill, Winston

Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

10.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

11.

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

12.

There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

13.

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

Anouilh, Jean

14.

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

15.

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

16.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

17.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

18.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

20.

Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

21.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

23.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

24.

It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

25.

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

Lao-Tzu

26.

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

27.

Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

28.

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

29.

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

30.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

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

Waitley, Denis

32.

Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

33.

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

34.

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

Bible

35.

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

36.

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

Petit-Senn, John

37.

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

38.

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

Luce, Timothy

39.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

40.

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

41.

It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

42.

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

43.

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.

44.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

45.

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

46.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

47.

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.

48.

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

49.

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

Johnson, Samuel

50.

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius