Motivational Quotes

Courage

The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

- Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

Best Quotes about Courage

1.

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.

2.

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

Churchill, Winston

3.

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

Bible

4.

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

5.

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

Valois, Margaret

6.

When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

7.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

8.

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.

9.

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

10.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

11.

If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

12.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

13.

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

William Shakespeare

14.

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

Battista, D.A.

15.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

16.

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!

17.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

18.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

19.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

20.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

21.

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

22.

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

23.

Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

24.

'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

25.

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

26.

The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

27.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

28.

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

29.

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

30.

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

31.

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

Churchill, Winston

32.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

33.

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

Ellinger, Jules

34.

I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

35.

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

36.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

37.

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

Taylor, Bayard

38.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

40.

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

41.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

42.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

43.

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

44.

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

45.

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

Bradbury, Ray

46.

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

Anouilh, Jean

47.

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