Quotes about courage

There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.

— George M. Adams

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

— William Arthur

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

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.

— Elizabeth Harrison

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.

— Sidney Madwed

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

— Ovid

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

— Source Unknown

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.

— Source Unknown

I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high water mark of pure and useful living.

— Booker T. Washington

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

— John Quincy Adams

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.

— Joseph Addison

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

— Freda Adler

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

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

— Conte Di Vittorio Alfieri

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.

— James Allen

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

— Barbara De Angelis

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

— Jean Anouilh

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

— Jean Anouilh

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

— Aristotle

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

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

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

— St. Augustine

The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fears subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.

— Joanna Baillie

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

— Bruce Barton

The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

— D.A. Battista

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.

— Sir Cecil Beaton

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

— David Ben-Gurion

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

— Georges Bernanos

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

— Dorothy Bernard

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.

— Mary Mcleod Bethune

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

— Bible

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

— Bible

I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

— Bible

With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

— Bible

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

— Bible

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]

— Bible

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

— Helena Petrova Blavatsky

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

— Erma Bombeck

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

— Christian Nevell Bovee

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

— Ray Bradbury

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

— Omar Bradley

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

— Dorothea Brande

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.

— Les Brown

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

— Les Brown

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.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

— Robert Browning

There's no substitute for guts.

— Bear Bryant

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

— Edmund Burke

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.

— Mary Byrant

Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

— Eileen Caddy

All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

— Curtis Carlson

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

— Thomas Carlyle

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

— Dale Carnegie

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

— Dale Carnegie

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Miguel De Cervantes

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.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

— Winston Churchill

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

— Marcus T. Cicero

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

— Marcus T. Cicero

A man of courage is also full of faith.

— Marcus T. Cicero

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.

— James Freeman Clarke

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

— Robert Cody

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

— Jeremy Collier

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.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.

— Joseph Conrad

The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

— Baron Pierre De Coubertin

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.

— E.E. (Edward. E.) Cummings

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

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

— Richard M. DeVos

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

— Walt Disney

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

— Benjamin Disraeli

You have to be tough.

— Mike Ditka

Courage follows action.

— Mack R. Douglas

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

— Amelia Earhart

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

— Umberto Eco

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!

— Thomas A. Edison

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

— Albert Einstein

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.

— Albert Einstein

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

— Jules Ellinger

Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What a new face courage puts on everything!

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Richard L. Evans

I am more important than my problems.

— Jose Ferrer

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.

— Gustave Flaubert

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

— B. C. Forbes