Top 100 Be Courageous Quotes
#1. You can be courageous in admitting your sin precisely because God is richly abundant in his mercy. He comes to you in mercy not because you are good but because you are a sinner, and he knows that because of this condition, you are unable to help yourself.
Paul David Tripp
#2. If truth prevails, the contributions of a courageous physician and a brilliant engineer to the conquest of waterborne disease will still be remembered in another hundred years.
Michael J. McGuire
#3. We can choose to be truthful even when the choice means personal loss. We can choose to undertake a great action - unselfish, courageous, daringly creative - that looks unreasonable and irrational to the eye of the Ego.
Ilchi Lee
#4. My characters were ... rebelling against something ... My own bad writing. I wouldn't do for my characters what they needed for me to do - be courageous enough in my writing to make them interesting.
John Scalzi
#5. As a rapper, you sort of act in music videos and in the persona you adopt onstage. You kinda have to put yourself out there and be courageous even to be a rapper. So, to step into acting was not that difficult a transition to make.
Queen Latifah
#7. Life is a mystery, and there is nothing to explain everything is just open, it is in front of you. Encounter it! Meet it! Be courageous!
Rajneesh
#8. There is more respect to be won in the opinion of this world by a resolute and courageous liquidation of unsound positions than by the most stubborn pursuit of extravagant or unpromising objectives.
George F. Kennan
#9. This is my command- be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid or discouraged. For the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.
Anonymous
#10. Major actions by courageous and wise men will be necessary to avoid our continuing to blunder into the space age like unenlightened and selfish idiots.
Fritz Zwicky
#11. To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something.
Criss Jami
#12. But you have to be courageous, my friend, and unafraid of pain. For only through pain will the beauty of the world be revealed.' He
Deborah Moggach
#13. Walk on with the spirit of boldness; talk on with the glory of confidence. You have a mandated seal on your chest ... When you go with a bold chest, the devil and his cohorts must give way!
Israelmore Ayivor
#15. It's interesting to note that the most kind and courageous souls you meet in life tend to be those who've faced the most cruelty and conflict. This vicious world might sharpen us like a blade, but whether we use that power to protect people or cause them pain is always our choice.
Beau Taplin
#16. I don't have to research humanity, I just have to be courageous enough to share that part of myself with everybody.
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
#17. There's a massive part of me that can be bold and courageous ... very strong and very assertive and independent, almost to a fault sometimes.
Evangeline Lilly
#18. Be courageous to listen to what you don't want to hear and have the guts to be innovative.
Pearl Zhu
#19. Our young Marines of today are courageous, willing to make sacrifices, and are marvelous team players. I am confident our Corps, and indeed our Nation, will be in great shape for a long time to come as these people continue to grow and assume greater positions of responsibility.
James T. Conway
#20. If I had to go into a battle and I needed someone loyal and courageous to cover my blindside, I know damn well Woody would be my man. I know, too, that God hasn't created a more generous, compassionate, or more understanding man than Woody Hayes.
Jack Tatum
#22. You have to be courageous to not spend money, ... and we don't have many people who have that courage..
Tom Coburn
#23. Be courageous, but not foolhardy. Walk proud as you are.
Maya Angelou
#24. To be outspoken when truth is under attack, when charity is being bruise, or when important issues of life are at stake is a good and courageous thing. To be outspoken when nothing is at stake except the feelings of someone else is a small and contemptible thing.
Lawrence G. Lovasik
#25. Cheryl Strayed reminds us, in her lyrical and courageous memoir Wild, of what it means to be fully alive, even in the face of catastrophe, physical and psychic hardship, and loss.
Mira Bartok
#26. To be emotionally resilient and to overcome your circumstances, not through fighting, but through being courageous and having endurance was something I thought was of primary importance.
Chris Weitz
#27. It would be wrong to describe Fennel as courageous as it would be wrong to describe a leopard as courageous.It runs when it can but when cornered turns to be one of the dangerous and vicious of all jungle beasts.
The vulture is a patient bird.
James hadley chase.
James Hadley Chase
#28. I surround myself with strong willed, courageous personalities, because I've got to be coached by the best.
Aeriel Miranda
#29. Never tire of firmly speaking out in defense of life from its conception and do not be deterred from the commitment to defend the dignity of every human person with courageous determination. Christ is with you: be not afraid!
Pope John Paul II
#31. To be human is necessarily to be a vulnerable risk-taker; to be a courageous human is to be good at it
Jonathan Lear
#32. Leadership calls for both wisdom and courage; the wisdom to know what to do is only half the battle. We must be courageous enough to actually do it.
Kellen Roggenbuck
#33. Courage does not take over, it fights and struggles through every word you say and every step you take. It's a battle or a dance as to whether you let it pervade. It takes courage to overcome, but it takes extreme fear to be courageous.
Cecelia Ahern
#34. I think on some level, that's a fear that exists in everybody, that if we're tested, we won't make the courageous choice. We won't make the decision that would make us heroic. We make the decision that would reveal us to be all too human.
Bruce Greenwood
#36. Byerozkin knew very well that the man with no quiet at the bottom of his soul was unable to endure for long, however courageous he might be in combat. He thought of fear or cowardice, on the other hand, as something temporary, something that could be cured as easily as a cold.
Vasily Grossman
#37. Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go (Joshua 1:9).
Lysa TerKeurst
#38. What I implore you to do is believe that if you make courageous choices and bet on yourself and put yourself out there that you will have an impact as a result of what you do, and you don't need to know now what that will be, or how that will happen, because nobody ever does.
Dick Costolo
#39. Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#40. You just have to be yourself and go full with confidence and be courageous.
Gabby Douglas
#41. I will never leave you nor forsake you. Be strong and courageous, because
Anonymous
#42. What made me most courageous was that I realized I had to try to let go of that stereotype I had in my mind, that bit of homophobia, and try for a second to be vulnerable and sensitive. It was f**kin' hard, man. I succeeded only for milliseconds.
Jake Gyllenhaal
#43. He never went to church, which Bailey and I thought also proved he was a very courageous person. How great it would be to grow up like that, to be able to stare religion down,
Maya Angelou
#44. Dialogue starts from the courageous willingness to know and be known by others. It is the painstaking and persistent effort to remove all obstacles that obscure our common humanity.
Daisaku Ikeda
#45. What if the most courageous thing you do is hold a dying person's hand? That would be enough.
Nicki Salcedo
#46. A Princess of the Shield is courageous. She is compassionate. She is kind, and she is disciplined. Without these four core values, a girl may have all the crowns and castles she wants, but she will no more be a princess than she will a dragon.
M.A. Larson
#49. Children are taught to fear and obey; the avarice, pride, or timidity of parents teaches children economy, arrogance, or submission. They are also encouraged to be imitators, a course to which they are already only too much inclined. No one thinks of making them original, courageous, independent.
Luc De Clapiers
#50. Be courageous. Always be a voice for those who are oppressed.
Debasish Mridha
#51. Now if I go through it again, I think I would be a lot more open about it. I admire people who have been open like Melissa Ethridge and women I see walking around facing it without wigs and all of that stuff. I think I would be more courageous next time.
Kathy Bates
#52. It is one thing to be brave in front of others, perhaps for fear of being branded a coward and becoming diminished in their eyes, but another entirely to be brave when there is nobody to witness your courage. The latter is an elemental bravery, a strength of spirit and character.
John Connolly
#53. And now Abbie had the new experience of attempting to keep another person courageous. It was more trying than to keep up her own spirits. Why must she always be strong for other people?
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#54. To be courageous is to be a voice for the voiceless
Tariq Ramadan
#55. Be courageous. It's one of the only places left uncrowded
Anita Roddick
#56. People who build their own home tend to be very courageous. These people are curious about life. They're thinking about what it means to live in a house, rather than just buying a commodity and making it work.
Tom Kundig
#57. And when hope returns to us, it will be with a passion and power to match every ounce of this crushing despair and pain, every fiery shred of determination that carried us when hope failed. It will claim us with a courage that will make the goddess herself quake and doubt herself.
Rachel L. Schade
#58. God is a man of His word, He assures us that we'll succeed in every task, every assignment, every dream, every vision He gives us. And always uses catchphrases for us to cling on during tough times. 'Be strong and courageous' (Joshua 1:6).
Euginia Herlihy
#59. As human rights throughout the world continue to be abused, Raoul Wallenberg stands as a courageous example that should inspire us all,
Elizabeth May
#60. I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.
Maya Angelou
#61. This Dewdrop World is a beautiful, courageous, intimate film about love and loss. It may also be the deepest meditation on climate change that I've ever seen.
Jeff Goodell
#62. While I do not hesitate to applaud certain aspects of the resolution honoring the sacrifices of our courageous soldiers who are risking their lives in Iraq, I cannot be supportive of capitalizing on these very sacrifices for political gain.
Ed Pastor
#63. Your potential exceeds your beliefs. Be courageous and chose the impossible.
Robbie Vorhaus
#64. It is a truism to say that the dog is largely what his master makes of him: he can be savage and dangerous, untrustworthy, cringing and fearful; or he can be faithful and loyal, courageous and the best of companions and allies.
Ranulph Fiennes
#65. To be courageous requires no exceptional qualifications, no magic formula, no special combination of time, place, and circumstance. It is an opportunity that sooner or later is presented to us all.
John F. Kennedy
#66. What is courage? It is the ability to be strong in trust, in conviction, in obedience. To be courageous is to step out in faith - to trust and obey, no matter what.
Kay Arthur
#67. A Good Man. Every night, like a question-and-answer prayer, my son and I recite ... What are you going to be? And he says ... An honest man. A fair man. A courageous man. And a good man. That's the most important thing, Papa. And my job is finally done. For the night.
Carew Papritz
#68. 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.
Audre Lorde
#69. Much more surprising things can happen to anyone who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable, determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#70. Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third.
Joseph Epstein
#71. 12Be of good courage, and let us be courageous for our people, and for the cities of our God, and may the LORD do what seems good to him.
Anonymous
#73. I want to be bold and courageous; I want to take ridiculous risks; I want to live every moment with appreciation and consciousness and I want to dance all the time - even when I am not dancing
Jacqueline Simon Gunn
#74. To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.
Kate Chopin
#75. I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their courageous protests against state terror and repression.
Noam Chomsky
#76. Have the courage to do what you're not ready to do.
Richie Norton
#77. I am just going outside and may be some time. Reportedly the last words of Lawrence Oates according to Captain Robert Falcon Scott, who commanded the ill-fated expedition to the South Pole 1911/12.
Captain Lawrence Edward Grace Oates
#79. You must remain pure of heart on this journey ... Be courageous but remember to also be noble and everything will be all right.
Guadalupe Garcia McCall
#80. You can choose to be courageous enough to explore and examine the new understanding, and , it it aligns with your inner truth and knowing, to enlarge your belief system to include it.
Neale Donald Walsch
#81. Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.
Laozi
#82. Brower was as courageous a criminal as ever lived to be hanged.
Ambrose Bierce
#83. Life is filled with opportunities. Be courageous and fulfill your destiny. You were created for a purpose and once you realize your potential, you become unstoppable. Let no one get in the way of you pursuing your dreams.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#84. No challenge can stop you if you have the courage to keep moving forward in the face of your greatest fears and biggest challenges. Be courageous.
Jon Gordon
#85. It's not enough to be courageous and compassionate and kind! You're got to be disciplined! You've got to be smart!
M.A. Larson
#86. You will find that people will always have opinions about your decisions. Don't take it personally, it's simply because they're not courageous enough to take action in their own lives. Be a leader in your life and pay no mind to those who lack the courage to do the same in theirs.
Steve Maraboli
#87. We would learn as much as we could, be as honourable as we could, be as courageous as we could, and be as happy as we could.
S.L. Mills
#88. Everything we do is about getting people to be more open, more creative, more courageous.
Jack Dorsey
#89. Be confident and courageous when you are about to make a start. Courage is key!
Israelmore Ayivor
#90. May we ever be courageous and prepared to stand for what we believe, and if we must stand alone in the process, may we do so courageously, strengthened by the knowledge that in reality we are never alone when we stand with our Father in Heaven.
Thomas S. Monson
#91. Many survivors insist they're not courageous: 'If I were courageous I would have stopped the abuse.' 'If I were courageous, I wouldn't be scared'... Most of us have it mixed up. You don't start with courage and then face fear. You become courageous because you face your fear.
Laura Davis
#92. There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get along, but that's not going to be very helpful for us in the long run, in terms of solving our problems. And somebody has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to, you know, the bullies.
Ben Carson
#93. May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young.
Bob Dylan
#94. If you are going to be courageous, an example for all those who are ready to step into their power, then you must be willing to show the world all of who you are. You must have the guts to throw off the chains of modesty and mediocrity in order to be the light that the world needs.
Debbie Ford
#95. Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear.
Gabby Douglas
#96. No one can take the place of a brave and courageous leader. Dare to be brave, dare to be courageous
S K Willie
#97. When we're courageous enough to be with what scares us, we can awaken our intuition and
create a new path for healing.
Kris Carr
#98. Be courageous enough to forgive yourself; never forget to be compassionate to yourself.
Debasish Mridha
#99. You have resources yet to be unleashed. Make bold, courageous choices. Live as though you have the power to change the world - because you do.
Caroline Myss
#100. Oh my dear heart! Be courageous and never fear to love.
Debasish Mridha
