Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Collier, Jeremy

Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

10.

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

Seneca

11.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

12.

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

13.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

15.

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

Johnson, Samuel

16.

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

17.

Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

18.

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

19.

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

20.

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

23.

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

Valois, Margaret

24.

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

25.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

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

Barton, Bruce

28.

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

Proverb

29.

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

30.

Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

31.

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

Shakespeare, William

32.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

33.

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

Karr, Alphonse

34.

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

35.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

36.

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

Greville, Lord

37.

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

38.

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

39.

I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

40.

If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

41.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

42.

Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

43.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

44.

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

45.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

46.

It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.