Courage To Be Oneself Quotes

#1. There's a way,
a way way too long but reachable,
not for everyone a way but possible ...
Go and don't lose your way!

Rossana Condoleo

#2. Rejoice in your troubles, all things will work for your good.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. I judge the world by my own lights
and I come by my own hand.

Catherine Madsen

#4. Fear cannot capture us, criticism cannot harm us, and pride cannot make us fall.

Donna Goddard

#5. As you step out of your comfort zone,
may life embrace you back.

Leta B.

#6. In life we must be willing to take risks, for that is the only way progress is attained.

Ndiritu Wahome

#7. If you least understand the essence of timely and courageously saying no to what you have to say no to, when you have to say no, you shall always say yes to what is due no remorsefully and count the cost of never saying no when you had to in pity though shall know your had I know in the end.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#8. Stubbornness is knowing exactly what you want courageously living by free will; never to be judged or ridiculed.

Michelle Cruz-Rosado

#9. She had discovered early that what we want out of life can change; that the important thing is to learn to recognize or even simply just to admit what we really want, and then to have the courage to reach for it.

Candice Proctor

#10. You don't always have to follow the rules. You have to stand for what you believe.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. Standing in the ring of fire, the eye of the storm, the vortex of pain and pressure is simultaneously the most vulnerable and most powerful place to be. Here we embody paradox. We stand our ground and surrender completely. Here we know the full power of the Feminine.

Lucy H. Pearce

#12. Like your tastebuds, desires and goals are ever-changing. What used to work, might not do it for you anymore. The question is: Do you have the guts to do something about it?

C. Nzingha Smith

#13. If you don't fight for it then you don't deserve to have it

Abie Sigauke

#14. One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.

Emile Chartier

#15. It is the expression of the anxiety of meaninglessness and of the attempt to take this anxiety into the courage to be as oneself. (139)

Paul Tillich

#16. Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. The writer's life requires courage, patience, empathy, openness. It requires the ability to be alone with oneself. Gentle with oneself. To be disciplined, and at the same time, take risks.

Dani Shapiro

#18. We are all born to fly. Instead, we sit on the branches afraid of the leap into the unknown. But the unknown is where enlightenment lives. Our true nature is the unknown.

Enza Vita

#19. Chasing your dreams with all your strength.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. Roar to your own beat!

Janet Autherine

#21. I have lived the life I longed for in my heart. And it is beautiful there.

Samantha Bruce-Benjamin

#22. The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

Paul Tillich

#23. Everything and everyone has a place to be, Echo. It's just a matter of how they get there and when. You have a place; you just have to find it.

Nadege Richards

#24. The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#25. The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength and courage from it, to dwell in a community.

Bell Hooks

#26. The wonders of life ... you and I are the light! Seek within ... there is no one to fight ... love is all ... we are one ... concentrate on bringing forth your sight ... breathe deep ... the universe is waiting for you divine ones.

Sereda Aleta Dailey

#27. No longer will I doubt my abilities ... I will give myself a chance.

Stephanie Lahart

#28. Have the courage to let some go, and sacrifice for some to stay; thus, live and make life your own way.

Mohammed Ali Bapir

#29. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; give the world the best you've got anyway.

Mother Teresa

#30. Spontaneous insanity is the real bliss! It's sad that we are honored for playing sane, serious, safe, miserable and controlling in this poor world.

Saurabh Sharma

#31. Have the courage to do what you're not ready to do.

Richie Norton

#32. Who one was, where one came from, what one was expected to be, the height of courage and character that were to be achieved, were woven into the fabric that linked oneself to all ...

Nathan Huggins

#33. Tumble me down, and I will sit
Upon my ruines (smiling yet
Teare me to tatters; yet I'le be
Patient in my necessitie.
Laugh at my scraps of cloathes, and shun
Me, as a fear'd infection:
Yet scarre-crow-like I'le walk as one,
Neglecting thy derision.

Robert Herrick

#34. ... I'm no longer willing to let myself down.

Sarah Jio

#35. For the sake of all the others who are like you, but less strong and less gifted perhaps, many of them, it's up to you to have the courage to make good.

Radclyffe Hall

#36. I didn't say a word. He wouldn't be using oxygen. K2 is more dangerous than Everest.

Susan Oakey-Baker

#37. No matter what kind of difficult situation one may find oneself in, some opening, some opportunity to fight one's way out, can always be found. What's most important is to hold fast to Hope, to face the future with courage.

Daisaku Ikeda

#38. All we need to do is look up, notice where we are, and be open to the
possibility of wonder.

Holly Elissa Bruno

#39. Mr. Kendrick was born on a horse and he'll die on one, and maybe that's not something you can breed for. He's one of those rare men who can make a horse work for him but never asks for more than they have. WOW. Very unexpected.

Maggie Stiefvater

#40. Risk is the unique path to success.

Adria J. Cimino

#41. This process of the good life is not, I am convinced, a life for the faint-hearted. It involves the stretching and growing of becoming more and more of one's potentialities. It involves the courage to be. It means launching oneself fully into the stream of life.

Carl Rogers

#42. Life can be very terrible," he said. "One needs much courage."
"To kill oneself? yes, I suppose one does."
"Also to live," said Poirot, "one needs courage.

Agatha Christie

#43. Dream your own dreams,
be your own person and image,
no matter the extremes.

KayeC Jones

#44. One must stand apart in order to truly know another.

Regina O'Melveny

#45. You should resist any form of oppression.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#46. Stop groveling, stop whining and start working!

Abhijit Naskar

#47. Courage is instinct, and heroes are born in the moment. Trust yourself to be great, I do!

D.C. Akers

#48. Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.

Lois McMaster Bujold