Courage Quotes - Page 3

Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant but inside I was always quaking.

Katharine Hepburn

Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Fear is the single strongest motivating force in our lives. ... The more frightened you become the better your chances of achieving success.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. -General Omar N. Bradley This morning I threw up at a board meeting. I was sure the cat was out of the bag but no one seemed to think anything about it apparently it's quite common for people to throw up at board meetings.

I'm a real pussycat-with an iron tail.

Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.

Franklin P. Jones

Necessity does the work of courage.

Nicholas Murray Butler

I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for-first a little and badly. Then bit by bit more and better. Being avidly-sometimes annoy-ingly-curious and persistent about discovering how others were doing what I wanted to do.

Many become brave when brought to bag.

Norwegian proverb

Courage mounteth with occasion.

William Shakespeare

When you have no choice mobilize the spirit of courage.

Courage is sustained by calling up anew the vision of the goal.

A. G. Sertillanges

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.

Napoléon Bonaparte

Optimism is the foundation of courage.

Nicholas Murray Butler

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.

Eddie Rickenbacker

To say a person is a coward has no more meaning than to say he is lazy: It simply tells us that some vital potentiality is unrealized or blocked.

Rollo May

There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world afraid to face himself.

There is a time when to avoid trouble is to store up trouble and when to seek for a lazy and a cowardly peace is to court a still greater danger.

William Barclay

To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.

Confucius

Spiritual cowardice is not only weakness but wickedness.

The most mortifying infirmity in human nature ... is perhaps cowardice.

Men perish by the sword cowards by disease.

Between cowardice and despair valour is gendered.

If you knew how cowardly your enemy is you would slap him.

Edgar Watson Howe

Bravery is the knowledge of the cowardice in the enemy.

Edgar Watson Howe

The coward despairs.

Euripides

The only cowards are sinners fighting the fight is all.

John G. Neihardt

All men would be cowards if they durst.

That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.

Charles Caleb Colton

Courage is being scared to death ... and saddling up anyway.

You look at a guy who's being brave. He's afraid or he wouldn't be brave. If he isn't afraid he's stupid.

Joe Torre

To fight a bull when you are not scared is nothing. And to not fight a bull when you are scared is nothing. But to fight a bull when you are scared is something.

Anonymous

Cowards die many times before their deaths the valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare

There is no such thing as bravery only degrees of fear.

John Wainwright

Courage leads starward fear toward death.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

Fate loves the fearless.

James Russell Lowell

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

Dorothy Bernard

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

General George S. Patton

Courage is the ability to solve problems realistically in the presence of fear.

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

Courage is ... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

David Ben-Gurion

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Plato

Courage is the right disposition toward fear.

Anonymous

Courage is a scorner of things which inspire fear.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

Martin Luther King

Courage is never letting your actions be influenced by your fears.

Arthur Koestler

Cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

A coward turns away but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.

Michel de Montaigne

Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.

The brave venture anything.

Anonymous

Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

Horace

Nothing ventured nothing gained.

Anonymous

The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start.

Charles M. Schwab

Life is to be entered upon with courage.

Alexis de Tocqueville

We ought to face our destiny with courage.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You can surmount the obstacles in your path if you are determined courageous and hardworking. ... Do not fear to pioneer to venture down new paths of endeavor.

Ralph J. Bunche

The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.

Alexander Smith

Imposing limitations on yourself is cowardly because it protects you from having to try and perhaps failing.

Vladimir Zworykin

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