Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Courage

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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

E. M. Forster

When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

John Wayne

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

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

You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

10.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

11.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

12.

True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

13.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

14.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.

Twain, Mark

15.

The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

16.

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

17.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

18.

Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

19.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

20.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

22.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

23.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

24.

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

25.

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.

26.

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

27.

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

28.

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

29.

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

30.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

31.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

32.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

33.

Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

34.

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

Johnson, John

35.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

36.

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

Lao-Tzu

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

38.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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

40.

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

Churchill, Winston

41.

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

42.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

47.

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.

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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

49.

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.