Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

1.

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

Menander of Athens

2.

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

Lawana Blackwell

3.

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

4.

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

5.

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

6.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

7.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

8.

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

Lao-Tzu

9.

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.

10.

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.

11.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

12.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

13.

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

14.

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

15.

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

16.

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

17.

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

Clare Booth Luce

18.

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

19.

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

Jean Paul Richter

20.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

21.

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

Taylor, Bayard

22.

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

23.

I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

24.

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

Zapata, Emiliano

25.

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

26.

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

27.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

28.

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

29.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

30.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

31.

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

32.

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

33.

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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.

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

Carroll, Lewis

36.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

37.

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

38.

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

Twain, Mark

39.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

41.

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

42.

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

43.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

44.

There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

45.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

46.

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

47.

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

Carnegie, Dale

48.

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