Top 100 Courage To Be Quotes
#1. It always seemed to me," she said at last, "that it must require a great deal of courage to be an artist, if only because the creative process is such a lonely one. I should imagine it must be all the more difficult for a woman.
Richard Yates
#2. For me, success was finding the courage to be true to myself, and holding on to a sense of humor along the way while refining my craft. Sean
Jewel
#3. We serve others as much by our weaknesses as by our strengths. The only difficult is that it takes humility and courage to be able to live by it.
Marcia Willett
#4. To be what I term a 'quality' human being one has to be transparently real and have the courage to be what he is.
Bruce Lee
#5. Aristotle deemed courage to be the first virtue, because it makes all the other possible.
Jonathan V. Last
#6. I'm constantly scared. I'm constantly fearful of what's to come and people don't realize that just because you're doing something doesn't mean that you're fearless but you get up every day and you do it. It takes a lot of courage to be real.
Adrienne Bailon
#7. To grow in craft is to increase the bredth of what I can do, but art is the depth, the passion, the desire, the courage to be myself and myself alone.
Pat Schneider
#8. Believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic.
Brene Brown
#9. The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Paul Tillich
#10. You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you are that person, but until you can see this clearly, you must pretend and invent.
Paulo Coelho
#11. The elderly have weathered enough squalls to know that this one, too, shall pass. They own the courage to be original; they've learned to hold their own values above the conventional wisdom.
Sarah Ferguson
#12. Daring greatly means the courage to be vulnerable. It means to show up and be seen. To ask for what you need. To talk about how you're feeling. To have the hard conversations.
Brene Brown
#13. Have the courage to be exactly who you are without apology. Admit your mistakes without beating yourself up. Release all shame! Release all guilt! You cannot live if you are hiding behind what was. Focus on what is, right now, and that is you!
Iyanla Vanzant
#14. As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are.
Antony Sher
#15. I admire people who come to politics because it takes a lot of courage to be in politics in India.
Shekhar Kapur
#16. Ah! Those strange people who have the courage to be unhappy! Are they unhappy, by the way?
Alice James
#17. You can have the courage to climb the mountain, swim the lakes, go on a raft to the other side of the Atlantic or Pacific. That any fool can do, but the courage to be on your own, to stand on your two solid feet, is something which cannot be given by somebody.
U.G. Krishnamurti
#18. ...You bring out the truth in me, Callista, and make me whole. I need you to set me free and give me the courage to be as strong as you are. I love you...
Catherine LaRoche
#19. Once a Loser never means you cannot muster the courage to be a Winner again,Win is just a manifestation of your bitter experiences for better Win today
Abhishek Sundarraman
#20. True self-confidence is the courage to be open - to welcome change and new ideas regardless of their source.
Carol S. Dweck
#21. I am trying to find the courage to be tender in my life. I know violence is weakness. Only the gentle are ever really strong.
James Dean
#22. Never bury something deep, baby. Takes twice as much courage to be who you are, say what you think, feel what you feel and let it show then it does to bury it.
Kristen Ashley
#23. Sometimes the hardest thing any of us can hope for is finding the courage to be honest with ourselves.
Kira Saito
#24. Listen to me. It takes a lot of courage to be true to yourself, true to your heart. You always have been very brave that way and I pray you always will be. It's your responsibility, Noah. Remember that.
Jandy Nelson
#25. It takes a lot of courage to be true to yourself, true to your heart.
Jandy Nelson
#26. There are looks that I see on other people that I think would look horrible on me, but I think if somebody has the courage to be really daring and try something outlandish, then more power to them. That's just encouraging and inspiring.
Blake Lively
#27. It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have an idea, you become a minority of one.
E. Paul Torrance
#28. 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
#29. You must have love as the core; it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.
Kenny Loggins
#30. I grew to see my affliction as my gift. When I sang, I soared. I could soar higher than all those hurts aimed at my heart. All I needed was the courage to be me.
Jimmy Scott
#32. The courage to be yourself is the essence of hip hop
KRS-One
#33. It takes a lot of courage to be the same person on the outside that you are on the inside.
Barbara De Angelis
#34. It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
John Eldredge
#35. If you do not have the courage to be yourself, what will you be?
The Silver Elves
#36. You don't need wings but courage to be SUPERMAN!!!!
Subhasis Das
#37. Different parts of the world have different attitudes to failure. Arguably, it may take more courage to be an entrepreneur in Sydney, or Paris, or London, or Japan, or Singapore ... but an entrepreneur sees the world for what it could be, not what it is.
Guy Kawasaki
#38. Small-minded fools are everywhere and those with the courage to be who they are often have to suffer them.
Kristen Ashley
#39. Sometimes it takes a lot of courage to be who you are.
Joan Bauer
#40. Takes twice as much courage to be who you are, say what you think, feel what you feel and let it show then it does to bury it. That shit you been holdin' onto will destroy you. You got a safe place to get rid of it, and you do, then you get rid of it like you just did. Yeah?
Kristen Ashley
#41. If you have the courage to be honest with everyone, including yourself, you may hurt a few people's feelings, but they will forever value your opinion more than your half truths.
Steven Aitchison
#42. Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.
Mary Daly
#43. The deepest and rarest kind of courage has nothing to do with feats or obstacles in the outside world; and, indeed, has nothing to do with the outside world - it is the courage to be who you are.
Sydney J. Harris
#44. Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage is history's true currency.
Charlton Heston
#45. It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.
Wallace Stevens
#46. I have never known courage to be judged by the length of a man's hair. Or, for the matter of that, whether he has any hair at all.
Lloyd Alexander
#47. It takes courage to be the author of your life.
Nicholas Lore
#49. I think it takes a lot of courage to be able to direct a film. If you have that courage and that vision together, and you pick the cast that you believe will achieve your vision, you win.
Nate Parker
#51. If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#52. Tamaki: Having the courage to be able to admit what you love ... enjoying what you love ... and being true to yourself ... Isn't that also what it means to be strong?
Bisco Hatori
#53. The way to build superior long-term returns is through preservation of capital and home runs ... When you have tremendous conviction on a trade, you have to go for the jugular. It takes courage to be a pig.
Stanley Druckenmiller
#54. Haven't we all been hurt? Don't you think it takes courage to be happy, to feel, to love? Don't you think it costs us all?
- Rivka
Carol Matas
#56. It takes more courage to be yourself than to live in the prison of ego with feelings of guilt. It takes a lot more courage to be happy than to be unhappy.
Human Angels
#57. Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
Sydney Smith
#58. It does not take age to be a sage, neither does it require rage to have the courage to be a sage in this day and age.
Ogwo David Emenike
#59. We must have the courage to be imperfect while striving for perfection.
Patricia T. Holland
#60. I'd always found goodness more interesting then evil, though I was aware this wasn't the most general view. To my mind, it took more work and more courage to be good, an opinion continually reinforced by my own shortcomings.
Dick Francis
#61. It's so easy to be there when it's all sunshine, but it really takes strength and courage to be there for each other during the dark times.
Bindi Irwin
#62. The courage to be is the most difficult thing for any human being.
Cornel West
#63. The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.
Brene Brown
#64. I believe that what we regret most are our failures of courage, whether it's the courage to be kinder, to show up, to say how we feel, to set boundaries, to be good to ourselves. For that reason, regret can be the birthplace of empathy.
Brene Brown
#65. Meditation is just a courage to be silent and alone. Slowly slowly, you start feeling a new quality to yourself, a new aliveness, a new beauty, a new intelligence - which is not borrowed from anybody, which is growing within you. It has roots in your existence.
Rajneesh
#66. Waiting for salvation, his faith transcends the dread of the moment; the desires of the oppressed will be sharpened by the courage to be and the will to live.20
Samuel Terrien
#67. If I am to be known for anything, I would like it to be for encouraging Canadians, for knowing a little bit about their daily, extraordinary courage. And for wanting that courage to be recognized.
Romeo LeBlanc
#68. It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#69. Those who have a strong sense of love and belonging have the courage to be imperfect.
Brene Brown
#70. How many more of us are faking the facade? How many more of us are pretending to be something we're not? Even better, how many of us will have the courage to be ourselves regardless of what others think?
Katie McGarry
#71. If every soldier refused to take arms ... there would be no wars; but no one has the courage to be the first to live according to Christ and Socrates, because in a world of opportunists they would be martyred.
Sylvia Plath
#72. Leadership simply begins with the courage to be yourself. So everyone else can be, too.
Umair Haque
#73. The very ones whose social pressure cause you to compromise will despise you for it. They probably respect your convictions,
and many of them wish they had the moral stamina to stand alone.
May the Lord give you added courage to be a witness for Him,
even in a hard place.
Billy Graham
#74. It's about knowing who you are, what you stand for, and then having the courage to be yourself - in every situation rather than only when it's convenient. It's about being real, consistent, and congruent so who you are on the inside is reflected by the way you perform on the outside.
Robin S. Sharma
#75. The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.
Paul Tillich
#76. The face of sin today often wears the mask of tolerance. Do not be deceived; behind that facade is heartache, unhappiness and pain.. YOU be the one to make a stand for right, even if you stand alone. Have the moral courage to be a light for others to follow.
Thomas S. Monson
#77. When asked what it takes to succeed in the acting profession, Bette Davis would answer, "the courage to be hated."
Frank Langella
#79. Sometimes it takes more courage to be the passenger than to be the driver.
E.L. Konigsburg
#80. To anyone out there especially young people feeling like they don't fit in and will never be accepted, please know this, great things can happen when you have the courage to be yourself.
Michael Sam
#81. Running for and holding public office requires little more than making informed decisions based on the facts, your values, and getting to know your fellow citizens. You'll need the courage to be yourself, and a desire to do the right thing. Chances are you're doing that already. In
Marian Walsh
#82. You need courage to be creative. You need the courage to see things differently, courage to go against the crowd, courage to take a different approach, courage to stand alone, if you have to, courage to choose activity over inactivity.
Jim Rohn
#83. It often takes more courage to be a passenger than a driver.
E.L. Konigsburg
#85. I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.
Marilyn Monroe
#86. When the Negro finds the courage to be free, he faces dogs and guns and clubs and fire hoses totally unafraid, and the white men with those dogs, guns, clubs and fire hoses see that the Negro they have traditionally called "boy" has become a man.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#87. Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!
Horace Walpole
#88. Too many people are frightened. They want youth to last. They complain bitterly if sickness comes. But the world is always in tumult, and fortunes rise and fall and fail. It is the ambitious who accomplish things. It takes courage to be ambitious, for never was anything great achieved without risk.
Jeff Wheeler
#89. Ah, when shall come love's courage to be strong!
Tell me, O Lord
tell me, O Lord, how long
Are we to keep Christ writhing on the cross!
Edwin Arlington Robinson
#90. Have the courage to be selfless in a world were such qualities are not admired. Dare to be differnt. Be crazy!
Frederick Lenz
#91. One of the blessings of maturity is that it sometimes brings one greater courage to be truthful, regardless of what those who do not understand may think or say
Napoleon Hill
#92. Those who won our independence ... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
Louis D. Brandeis
#93. Because I lay with him ... I've caught a glimpse of heaven. Or I understand what I need. Or I have the courage to be myself.
K.Z. Snow
#94. It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#95. How do people do this? How do people work up the courage to be themselves even if it means facing rejection from people who love them? Why don't people get medals for this?
Sara Farizan
#96. Meditation, in all its forms and traditions, is an invitation to listen, to open, to quietly enlist the courage to be touched and formed by life.
Mark Nepo
#97. By finding the courage to be ourselves, we gain the power to make a difference.
Lindsey Stirling
#98. To be secure everywhere is the mark of sophistication, to be unshakable is the mark of courage, to be permanently in love with every person is the mark of masculinity or femininity, to forgive is the mark of strength, to govern our senses and passions is the mark of freedom.
Eknath Easwaran
#99. In other words she was good at adjusting herself to other people... But tat could also mean she simply lacked the courage to be herself if it meant she had to risk ending up all alone.
Wataru Watari
#100. What an old maid I'm getting to be. lacking the courage to be in love with death!
Arthur Rimbaud
