Top 100 Courage To Live Quotes
#1. The only courage you will need is the courage to live the life you are meant to.
Oprah Winfrey
#2. I don't really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits
Anais Nin
#3. It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe it.
C.S. Lewis
#4. Lord, give me the heart of a child, and the awesome courage to live it out as an adult.
Catherine Doherty
#5. Remarkably, the most common regret of the dying was this: they wish they'd had the courage to live a life true to themselves and not the life others expected of them.
Donald Miller
#6. And I wondered if that was the problem with literature - it made sense only in theoretical situations and didn't often help in real life, where it took a hell of a lot more courage to live than to turn pages all alone, hidden away from the world in a corner or a bed or under a tree.
Matthew Quick
#7. I think inside every rock journalist, there's somebody who wishes they had the courage to live the life that they're not, and that they're writing about. But at the same time, inside every songwriter, I guess there's a wish for happiness.
Glen Hansard
#8. But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
Albert Camus
#9. What takes more courage. To live ... or to die?
Anne Rouen
#10. It takes courage to live your dream and bounce back up when you have been knocked down. Your dreams give you the energy and inspiration to live a great life.
Justin Langer
#11. Faith is the courage to live your life as if everything that happens does so for your highest good and learning. Like it or not.
Dan Millman
#12. It takes courage to live in the midst of hate. And it requires strength to keep that hatred from eating your soul.
Mari Serebrov
#13. For the first time in my life, I have tasted life. Life is wonderful but very dangerous. If you have the courage to live it - it's marvelous!
Lionel Barrymore
#14. A compassionate willingess is required - as is the courage to live before the fact, before the understanding, before any rational support or certainty, to live the moment to its natural peak and conclusion, and to accept with dignity whatever joy, grief, misfortune, or unexpectedness occurs.
Clark Moustakas
#15. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us.
Henry Miller
#16. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.
Henry Miller
#18. Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.
Jim Davis
#19. Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
George Santayana
#20. Bravery shows up in everyday life when people have the courage to live their truth, their vision and their dreams.
Oprah Winfrey
#21. It is your life...OWN IT! Your life purpose empowers you and enables you to live life abundantly. Empowerment begins by taking responsibility for your life and being accountable for your actions. Empowerment is the courage to live passionately and purposefully each day
Thomas Narofsky
#24. Just as we need the courage to be happy, we also need the courage to live simply.
Pope Francis
#25. It takes courage to live. It takes even more courage to wonder. But it takes the greatest courage of all to believe.
Katlyn Charlesworth
#29. Don't be a coward, driving away anyone who cares enough to see you for yerself. It's easy to live yer life alone, son. It takes courage to live with another. But in the end, yer life can be so much richer for it
Sabrina Jeffries
#30. Moses became America's true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty.
Bruce Feiler
#31. learn was the difference between having a dream and cultivating the courage to live it out day after day." Mable
Kristy Cambron
#32. God wants us to pray that we might have the courage to live before him in ways that are not natural to us.
Jack Miller
#34. Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live.
G.K. Chesterton
#35. People's most common regret was living the life others expected of them, rather than having the courage to live a life true to themselves, and realising some dreams had gone unfulfilled as a result.
Bianca Nogrady
#36. Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability.
Benjamin Disraeli
#37. It takes courage to live your truth. But what you get in return is self-respect.
Auliq Ice
#38. Christians who understand biblical truth and have the courage to live it out can indeed redeem a culture, or even create one. This is the challenge facing all of us in the new millennium.
Charles W. Colson
#39. Life is full of unanswerable questions including how to live and what to live for. It takes extreme courage to live honestly by a person's beliefs and never rest until a person achieves the type of life that he or she envisions.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#40. There is no prose as inspiring as a single human being with the courage to live well.
Iain S. Thomas
#41. I was born with the courage to live. Only those are unwise who have never dared to be fools.
Elsie De Wolfe
#42. But plausibility itself, in my view, is a tremendous step forward as we continue to marshal the courage to live meaningful lives in a universe that likely came into existence, and may fade out of existence, without purpose, and certainly without us at its center.
Lawrence M. Krauss
#43. The greatest gift you will ever have is your life, and the second greatest gift-which you give yourself-is courage to live it to the fullest. Time goes by quickly, and you cannot take it for granted.
Sonia Friedman
#44. Pamela realizes for the first time in her life that she hadn't made the wrong choice at all. Nor had she made the right choice. She had simply made a choice. And somewhere along the way, she had lost the courage to live by it.
Pip Karmel
#45. You're growing and that scares people, it frightens the shit out of them because they know if they don't step up within themselves you'll move forward with out them. When this happens, don't you dare settle to suit the mould - have courage to live without one.
Nikki Rowe
#46. Blessed are the wonderers with the courage to live into the questions. Seems to me that sooner or later, whether we like the outcome or not, theirs is the answer.
Sarah Bessey
#47. The strangest of our powers
Is the courage to live
Knowing that we will die,
Knowing nothing more true.
Nazim Hikmet
#48. I want us all to fulfill our greatest potential. To find our calling, and summon the courage to live it
Oprah Winfrey
#49. People have a courage to die, but don't have a courage to live.
Sarvesh Jain
#50. it takes more courage to live a life rather than end it,
Laura Landon
#51. But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.
Albert Camus
#52. It does not take courage to kill. It takes courage to live.
Renee Ahdieh
#53. Even in the hardest circumstances, dreams can give you the courage to live, and I hope I can share that message with children in need.
Kim Yuna
#54. It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.
Les Brown
#55. A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.
Les Brown
#56. It is naive to think that self-assertiveness is easy. To live self-assertively
which means to live authentically
is an act of high courage. That is why so many people spend the better part of their lives in hiding
from others and also from themselves.
Nathaniel Branden
#58. 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
#59. Courage is a value. My faith is the organizing principle in my life and what underpins my faith is courage and love, and so I have to be in the arena if I'm going to live in alignment with my values.
Brene Brown
#60. I do not intend for 'honor, courage, and commitment' to be just words; I expect them to frame the way that we live and act.
Charles C. Krulak
#61. How would it feel to live a full life and have no one remember it, to have no one remember the extraordinary things you accomplished, even if it was just waking up every day and finding the courage to get out of bed?
T.J. Klune
#62. I think I cry because it always strikes me as sacred, all those people going by. People who decided simply to live their truth, even when doing so wasn't simple. Each and every one of them had the courage to say, This is who I am even if you'll crucify me.
Just like Jesus did.
Cheryl Strayed
#63. To be able to live each day with honor, respect and dignity is the greatest achievement of all.
Roopleen
#64. Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.
George W. Bush
#65. 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
#66. We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.
Sharon Salzberg
#67. 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
#68. Ted," he said, "when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?" I decided I'm going to live-or at least try to live-the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure.
Mitch Albom
#70. We create our own destiny, but notwithstanding an occasional trip down the wrong path. The key is realizing when it's the wrong path and having the courage to do a little backtracking until you are back on the road to the life you were meant to live.
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#71. The test of courage is not to die but to live. And live with dignity and conviction every single day.' He
Kavita Kane
#72. Remember, there are cookies waiting here for you.
Dean Koontz
#73. Have the courage to let some go, and sacrifice for some to stay; thus, live and make life your own way.
Mohammed Ali Bapir
#74. To die for a cause is easy, to live, to be steady day after day doing the small things, taking care of the details, knowing you will be forgotten by history and still choosing to do so, that is real courage
Anonymous
#75. I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.
Oprah Winfrey
#76. Disability is not a 'brave struggle' or 'courage in the face of adversity' ... Disability is an art. it's an ingenious way to live.
Neil Marcus
#77. Don't think about who they [the Nazis] are. Think about who you are and what sacrifices you can live with and what will break you [Mother Superior to Vianne].
Kristin Hannah
#78. We who live forever can know no courage, nor do we love enough to give our lives.
Katherine Arden
#79. No matter what identity we cling to, it takes great courage to step out of the old masks we wear and the old scripts that we live by, and open ourselves to the mysterious inner core of our being.
Adyashanti
#80. Don't clock off from life, you are still standing and that is testament there is more to live. Embrace life.
Tony Curl
#82. Oh, to be laughed at when I have the courage to speak my heart. I don't want to live in a world like this."
-from "Diary of My Sixteenth Year
Yasunari Kawabata
#83. I have this one little life to live with, it's not the plan I had in mind but I can accept its the calling of my soul. The irony in gaining freedom through the heartbreak of stillness.
Nikki Rowe
#84. 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
#85. I hope you take the courage to pursue your dreams. I wish that you will have the determination to start the best day of your life everyday.
Diana Rose Morcilla
#86. To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
Charles Caleb Colton
#87. And then I realized that my sister was trying to LIVE a romance novel.
Man, that takes courage and imagination. Well, it also took some degree of mental illness, too, but I was suddenly happy for her.
And a little scared. Well, a lot scared.
Sherman Alexie
#88. You have to be willing to endure the discomfort, the doubts and unknowing, you somehow find the courage to walk through your doubts and the difficult times because you are living the life you are meant to live.
Mary Pope Osborne
#89. We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#90. Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.
Howard Cosell
#91. It's not enough to wish, dream, hope. Even children know this. We must set sail into the sea of uncertainty. We must meet fear face-to-face. We must take our dreams as maps for a greater journey. Dreams, to come true, need a good story. So go live one.
Vironika Tugaleva
#92. They forget that we, too, have earned the right to live! So I say if we are going to die, my friend, let us die trying, not sitting.
Velma Wallis
#93. There is wisdom in knowing your limits and then daring to push past them. Choose to live an exceptional life.
Truth Devour
#94. Don't try to understand life. Live it! Don't try to understand love. Move into love. Then you will know - and all that knowing will come out of your experiencing. The more you know, the more you know that much remains to be known.
Osho
#95. As long as a man had the courage to reject what society told him to do, he could live life on his own terms. To what end? To be free. But free to what end? To read books, to write books, to think.
Paul Auster
#96. She and me? We the same in some fings. We live. The others, those orphan kids, they dead. Because she and me, we want to live and we do anyfing to make that happen. That's the difference between us and the others.
Melina Marchetta
#97. The gospel alone liberates you to live a life of scandalous generosity, unrestrained sacrifice, uncommon valor, and unbounded courage.
Tullian Tchividjian
#98. I sat and reflected on the situation I had faced
I needed answers to the questions I still, didnt have the courage to ask ...
But I need to know,
How was this to be apart of my destiny?
Nikki Rowe
#99. How can we have the courage to wish to live, how can we make a movement to preserve ourselves from death, in a world where love is provoked by a lie and consists solely in the need of having our sufferings appeased by whatever being has made us suffer?
Marcel Proust
#100. Being tall has a major impact in general. It takes some courage to be as big as you are - to live up to it and not be intimidated by the graceful tiny people.
Sigourney Weaver
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