Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Jean Paul Richter

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Valois, Margaret

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

John Wayne

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

10.

Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

11.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

12.

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

13.

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

Plutarch

14.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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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.

16.

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

Churchill, Winston

17.

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

Bradley, Omar

18.

A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

22.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

23.

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.

24.

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

Ellinger, Jules

25.

All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

26.

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

27.

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

King, Basil

28.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

29.

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

30.

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

John Quincy Adams

31.

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

Clare Booth Luce

32.

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

33.

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

34.

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

35.

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

36.

Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

37.

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

Weininger, Ben

38.

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

39.

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

40.

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

42.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

43.

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

Ovid

44.

As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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

Jean Paul Richter

46.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

47.

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

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