Motivational Quotes

Courage

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

- Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

Best Quotes about Courage

1.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

2.

Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

3.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

4.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

5.

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

6.

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

Evans, Richard L.

7.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

8.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

9.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

10.

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

Luce, Timothy

11.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

12.

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

13.

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

14.

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

18.

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

Ovid

19.

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

20.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

21.

'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Bible

23.

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

24.

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

25.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

26.

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

Lawana Blackwell

27.

I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

28.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

32.

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

King, Basil

33.

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

34.

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

35.

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

Valois, Margaret

36.

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

37.

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

Cicero

38.

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

39.

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

Menander of Athens

40.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

41.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

42.

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

Twain, Mark

43.

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

Hudson, William Henry

44.

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

45.

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

Greville, Lord

46.

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

47.

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

48.

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