Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

1.

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

2.

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

3.

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

Jean Paul Richter

4.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

5.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

6.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

7.

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

8.

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

Clare Booth Luce

9.

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

13.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

14.

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

15.

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

Johnson, Samuel

16.

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

17.

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

Euripides

18.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

19.

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

20.

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

21.

The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

22.

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

Petit-Senn, John

23.

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

Ovid

24.

The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

25.

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

26.

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

Churchill, Winston

27.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

28.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

29.

He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

30.

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

31.

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

32.

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

33.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

34.

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.

35.

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

Taylor, Bayard

36.

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

37.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

38.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

39.

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

40.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

41.

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

Adler, Freda

42.

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

Anouilh, Jean

43.

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

Harold Wilson

44.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

45.

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

46.

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

Shakespeare, William

47.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

48.

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

49.

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.

50.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore