Part 1: Quotes on being courageous
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
Below are 21 inspirational and wisdom quotes on courage. It might be of great value to some who needs the extra edge on being the most courageous person they can ever be.
These quotes are from some of the greatest people in history.
Quotes on your Courage
1. Courage is the best slayer- courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph. Friedrich Nietzsche
2. What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Johann von Goethe
3. We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival. Winston Churchill
4. Fate loves the fearless. James Russell Lowell
5. Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing. Winston Churchill
6. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. Mark Twain
7. Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion. Calvin Coolidge
8. Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause. Henry Ward Beecher
9. It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Henry Ward Beecher
10. As to moral courage, I have very rarely met with the two o’clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion, and which, in spite of the most unforeseen events, leaves full freedom of judgement and decision. Napoleon Bonaparte
11. Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others. Winston Churchill
12. We ought to face our destiny with courage. Friedrich Nietzsche
13. Now the trumpet summons us again – not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a cal to battle; though embattled we are; but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, ‘rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation’ , a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself. John F. Kennedy
14. Valour lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice. Miguel de Cervantes
15. The bravest are the tenderest. the loving are the daring. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
16. Courage is not simply on of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. C.S Lewis
17. God gives us always strength enough, and sense enough, for everything he wants us to do. John Ruskin
18. How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, resolution enough to mend them. Benjamin Franklin
19. However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. Henry David Thoreau
20. If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live. Martin Luther King Jr.
21. Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; the rest is all but leather and prunella. Alexander Pope
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