Motivational Quotes

Courage

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

- E. M. Forster

Best Quotes about Courage

1.

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

2.

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

3.

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

Carnegie, Dale

4.

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

5.

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

Menander of Athens

6.

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

7.

Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

8.

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

9.

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

10.

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

11.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

14.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

15.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

16.

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

Bible

17.

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

18.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

20.

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

Harold Wilson

21.

'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

22.

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

23.

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

Sherman, William T.

24.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

25.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

26.

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

Tyger, Frank

27.

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

31.

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.

32.

No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

33.

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

34.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

35.

The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

36.

A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

37.

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

Johnson, John

38.

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

Jean Paul Richter

39.

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

Ellinger, Jules

40.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

41.

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

Weininger, Ben

42.

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

Churchill, Winston

43.

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

44.

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

Luce, Timothy

45.

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

Shakespeare, William

46.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

47.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

48.

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

49.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

50.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin