Motivational Phrases – Courage

The stories of past courage… can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.
John F. Kennedy


All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney


A man full of courage is also full of faith.
Cicero


Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway


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


Courage is resistance to fear; mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
Mark Twain


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


Perfect courage is todo without witnesses what one would be capable of doing before all the world.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD


We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face … we must do that which we think we cannot.
Roosevelt, Eleanor


The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
Robert Cushing


In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Anonymous


He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Muhammad Ali


You can’t test courage cautiously.
Anne Dillard


It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
Aesop


I’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
Lyndon Baines Johnson