Motivational Quotes

Courage

Fortune helps the brave.

- Terence

Best Quotes about Courage

1.

The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

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2.

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

Luther, Martin

3.

Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

4.

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

5.

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]

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6.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

7.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

8.

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

Churchill, Winston

9.

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

Luce, Timothy

10.

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

11.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

12.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

13.

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

14.

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

Thomson, James

15.

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

Valois, Margaret

16.

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

Menander of Athens

17.

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

Corra Harris

18.

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

19.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

20.

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

21.

Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

22.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

23.

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

Ellinger, Jules

24.

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

25.

Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

26.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

27.

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

28.

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

29.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

30.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

31.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

32.

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

Tyger, Frank

33.

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

Carnegie, Dale

34.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

35.

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

Taylor, Bayard

36.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

37.

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

Plutarch

38.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

41.

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.

42.

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

Einstein, Albert

43.

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

45.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

47.

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

48.

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

49.

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

Adler, Freda

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?