Top 100 Courage Change Quotes
#1. If you have substructure and courage change your thoughts and, you change your life. If you have change your life and, change others life.
Mehmet Kececi
#2. I have gotten where I am today by refusing to stay where I was. Change is something I have done over and over again.
Danielle Bernock
#3. Keep me heaven my soul has holes, leaking good morals, I once had control over dark matters of the world, give me courage and strength for my Lord, and sew the holes that hold you near. Keep me heaven my soul has holes.
Anthony Liccione
#4. Ideas combined with courage can change the world.
David Litwack
#5. We can talk about courage and love and compassion until we sound like a greeting card store, but unless we're willing to have an honest conversation about what gets in the way of putting these into practice in our daily lives, we will never change. Never, ever.
Brene Brown
#6. The world has improved mostly because unorthodox people did unorthodox things. Not surprisingly, they had the courage and daring to think they could make a difference.
Ruby Dee
#7. Lord, grant me the strength to accept the things I cannot change,
he courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#8. Life's struggles are necessary for growth.
Auliq Ice
#9. Believing in your potential and calling upon your courage to change will fuel your professional growth and help you accomplish goals.
John Manning
#10. Don't see the notes. See the music. See the story it is telling you. Allow the music to change you. Allow it to give you the courage to do whatever you need to
Karen White
#11. Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.
Euripides
#12. Fear echoes your self-defined limitations, not your actual ones. To change your self-image, you must face what scares you.
Vironika Tugaleva
#13. But some things did not change ...
Courage, for instance. Dedication to a cause. Comradeship. When they were strong and pure, when they came from deep in the bone, those qualities could hold fast against all odds.
Juliet Marillier
#14. This is what courage is. It's not just living through the nightmare, it's doing something with it afterward. It's being brave enough to talk about it to other people. It's trying to organize to change things.
Leslie Feinberg
#15. I don't think I have ever been as inspired by any character that I have played. I was deeply moved by Temple's courage and her resourcefulness.. She is really pioneering in both the world of autism and animal rights. She has encouraged an incredibly positive change in the world.
Claire Danes
#16. To progress isn't a little step, it's a pretty dramatic lifestyle change.
Auliq Ice
#17. So much of starting a business or affecting change is the confidence and courage to simply try.
Simon Sinek
#18. Anyone can stay the same. It takes courage to change
John Assaraf
#19. Some people gave up on their wishes and dreams because they'd been disappointed too many times in life and just didn't have the courage to keep hoping things would change
Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson
#20. Sometimes I am stunned at my capacity as a nine-year-old, to understand my entrapment and escape it... Where did I find the courage to rebel, to change my life, live alone? I don't want to over-estimate all this, but damn it, I love that nine-year-old, whoever in hell he was.
Ray Bradbury
#21. We did not make this world...and our childhood inclinations about how to succeed in it turn out to be wrong: often our courage is needed not to dramatically change reality but to accept it and persist in it.
Jennifer Michael Hecht
#22. Wisdom is finding the path that is best for all - considering the options, the positives and the negatives - and having the courage to change what must be changed for the sake of the entire world.
Laurence Overmire
#23. Are we amateurs and not professionals? We know the lessons of history, we know the mistakes and we either act accordingly or collapse. Salvation lies in clarity and the courage to implement change
Thomas S. Power
#24. People who bring transformative change have courage, know how to re-frame the problem and have a sense of urgency.
Malcolm Gladwell
#25. The empty spaces of your soul are the ones you search for, pray for and want so desperately to be filled. They are also the spaces that will never be filled, until you are ready to do something you have never done.
Shannon L. Alder
#26. Character is a quality that embodies many important traits, such as integrity, courage, perseverance, confidence and wisdom. Unlike your fingerprints that you are born with and can't change, character is something that you create within yourself and must take responsibility for changing
Jim Rohn
#27. Courage is not my leading virtue. I've always avoided change of any sort, operating on the principle of safety first. I married a "safe" man. I've made my living performing humdrum work, work that bored other people so much that they'd pay someone else to do it.
Christina Bartolomeo
#28. The only thing that makes advice great is when you apply it and it works so try, try try.
Rob Liano
#29. You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.
Ally Condie
#30. We give up our power to the very people who took it away from us in the first place.
Patti Digh
#31. She never allowed the external world to change her soul, that was her magic.
Nikki Rowe
#32. Whatever you are going through, it will not last. I promise you. You are not going to stay there. Tell yourself, "I am not staying here. It is just a season." Seasons change.
Sandra M. Michelle
#33. Courage changes things for the better ... [With courage you can] stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.
Earl Nightingale
#34. That is our Fairy Tail!! We don't live like we have already died, like you do!! We live with our lives on the lines, you bastard!! If you don't have the courage to change things then you might as well just die!!!
Hiro Mashima
#35. Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
John Galsworthy
#36. When a man you like switches from what he said a year ago, or 4 years ago, he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough to change his mind with changing conditions. When a man you don't like does it, he is a liar who has broken his promises.
Franklin P. Adams
#38. Don't let what you thought you were yesterday keep you from becoming what you're meant to be today.
Vironika Tugaleva
#39. Anything can be changed by those who have the courage to blaze their own path.
Emily R. King
#40. A willingness to let go of an old self and allow creative thoughts to remake a person into a better version of oneself requires an act of courage.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#41. Whatever aspect of life you apply it to, making change takes courage.
Gloria Feldt
#42. What's old collapses, times change, and new life blossoms in the ruins.
Friedrich Schiller
#43. It is about time to see within us a real change and let it happen as we have made before we start.
Auliq Ice
#44. No one doubts your courage, but you are a headstrong knight and when you choose a way you cannot change your course even if it lead to your destruction. That is your fault and your destiny.
John Steinbeck
#45. Don't let anyone tell you the future is already written. The best any prophet can do is to give you the most likely version of future events. It is up to us to accept the future for what it is, or change it. It is easy to go with the flow; it takes a person of singular courage to go against it.
Jasper Fforde
#46. In Christ we are given the courage and strength to change the world
Michael W. Smith
#47. Pause and remember - Change will happen the moment you have the courage to change.
Jennifer Young
#48. It is senseless to blame others or your environment for your miseries. Change begins from the moment you muster the courage to act. When you change, the environment will change. The power to change the world is found nowhere but within our own life.
Daisaku Ikeda
#49. It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it.
Willy Brandt
#50. God grant me the serentiy to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom always to tell the difference.
Kurt Vonnegut
#51. Not being "okay," is a gift. And inside that gift, is the strength to change and the courage to begin again.
Kirstin Leigh
#52. Evolution and incremental change is important and we need it, but we're desperate for real revolution and that requires a different type of courage and creativity.
Brene Brown
#53. Whom the society deems worthless, once they discover their special inclination, it will change the very course of their lives as well as the shape of the very society that distastes them.
Abhijit Naskar
#54. Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
Jesse Jackson
#55. I love everything about Tyler Durden, his courage and his smarts. His nerve. Tyler is funny and charming and forceful and independent, and men look up to him and expect him to change their world. Tyler is capable and free, and I am not.
Chuck Palahniuk
#56. We are bound no longer by the straitjacket of the past and nowhere is the change greater than in our profession of arms. What, you may well ask, will be the end of all of this? I would not know! But I would hope that our beloved country will drink deep from the chalice of courage.
Douglas MacArthur
#57. It takes more courage to disturb the neighborhood than it takes to disturb the universe. And the price is often higher.
E.L. Konigsburg
#58. Have courage enough to accept what you can not change, but yet courageous enough to stand up and fight for what you can.
Robert M. Hensel
#59. Here's a QBQ twist for all of us: God, grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know - it's me!
John G. Miller
#60. Some won't stay but thank them for stopping by.
Nikki Rowe
#61. For stubborn souls like Lisette, death was easier than the courage it took to actually change your life.
Sarah Addison Allen
#62. The great soul is the person who has taken on the task of change. If he or she is able to transcend fear, to act out of courage, the whole group will benefit and each one, in his or her own life, will be suddenly more courageous, though they may not see how or why.
Gary Zukav
#63. As a world leader who refused to accept injustice, Nelson Mandela's courage helped change our entire world
Salil Shetty
#64. Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees
J. Willard Marriott
#65. If God give you strength and courage, don't use it to intimidate people or overpower them, rather use your gift to help others find their own way to strength.
Anthony Liccione
#66. God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#67. Change is painful. Few people have the courage to seek out change. Most people won't change until the pain of where they are exceeds the pain of change.
Dave Ramsey
#68. It takes courage, motivation, discipline, and persistence to get out of comfort zone.
Pearl Zhu
#69. Pause and remember - At any moment you have the power to say 'this is enough' and radically change the course of your destiny. Have the faith and courage to follow your hearts calling.
Jennifer Young
#70. Finding one's place in the world is never easy.
Have courage and be true to who you are.
Remember, those who dare to be different are
Often the ones who change the world.
Christopher Paolini
#71. God, grant me serenity to accept those things I can't change, the courage to change those I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
-Division St.
Studs Terkel
#72. * We can still alter our course. It is NOT too late. We still have options. We need the courage to change our values to the regeneration of our families, the life that surrounds us.
Oren Lyons
#73. There are some people, she says, not many, who have within them the power to change things. The courage to act in the service of somethin greater than themselves.
Moira Young
#74. Stress is a thought, a perception of fear, it will melt away if we
let our thoughts change with courage.
Debasish Mridha
#75. Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those people I had to kill because they pissed me off!
Sarah Ferguson
#76. Change will never happen if you lack the ability and courage to see yourself for who you really are.
Bryant McGill
#77. Success is not about impressing and pleasing everyone, but setting your own goals, and achieving them in your own time.
Auliq Ice
#78. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.
Robert Kennedy
#80. I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting.
(Victory Speech, Nov. 7, 2012)
Barack Obama
#81. In all her attempts to be brave and stay strong, she'd never realized it took more courage to change than to stay the same.
A.B. Harms
#82. The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.
Malala Yousafzai
#83. the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, the wisdom to know the difference." Amy
Catherine Lea
#84. If you have Hope for a needed change ... Faith that it will happen someday & Courage to stand against all adversity and make it happen ... You have the dire tools to change the world!
Timothy Pina
#85. Give yourself permission 2 evolve. Become a philosopher; come up with your own interpretation of life and stop accepting someone else's as your truth.
Germany Kent
#86. Nobody is going to come along and sprinkle magic fairy dust on you. If you want to change your life, you need to find the courage to stand up and fight.
Valerie Silveira
#87. With guided hands, the world can change with a little love, hope, courage and determination.
Carolyn Kulhavy
#88. Stories are important too. Stories help make sense of things. They make you believe you can do things. They help you imagine that things may be different, that if you just have enough courage ... or faith ... or goodness ... you can change things for the better.
Kate Forsyth
#90. The world is broken he said, how will you fix it?
I don't think anyone can fix it but we can teach ourselves & eachother to focus on the good and the important and maybe little by little this place won't feel so heavy.
Nikki Rowe
#92. My father managed to change his entire life after I wrote a novel about his brutal regime as a family man. It took resoluteness and courage for my father to change, and I need to acknowledge that.
Pat Conroy
#93. People say, 'You have inspired me, you've given me courage ... ' They've gone so far as to say, 'You've changed my life!' And I would come back and say to my husband, 'I can't understand it - what kind of poor little life did she have if I had to come and change it?'
Iris Apfel
#95. Better, Josef, far better, to have the courage to change your convictions. Duty and faithfulness are shams, curtains to hide behind. Self-liberation means a sacred no, even to duty.
Irvin D. Yalom
#96. It takes more than just awareness for us to change. It takes courage and humility and the willingness to occasionally feel like fools and laugh at ourselves.
Bud Harris
#97. I stopped remembering the past and started visualising my future, the only thing left I could hold onto was hope; that the courage I have found along the way, is what will see me through.
Nikki Rowe
#98. I want to change things on my own terms, to show that there's no right or wrong way to change the world. There's no entry test. You don't need to suck anything up. Pay any dues. Just you and your anger and your voice is enough. If you only have the courage to use it.
Holly Bourne
#99. My instinct is saying its not over, but your adamant it is, what do I trust?
Nikki Rowe
#100. Healing and positive life change comes from having the courage and spiritual conviction to look squarely at life's impermanence.
Meredith L. Young-Sowers
