Top 100 Courage Truth Quotes
#1. Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.
Brene Brown
#2. Life is difficult; facts uncompromising; and the passage to that fabled land where our brightest hopes are extinguished, our frail barks founder in darkness, one that needs, above all, courage, truth, and the power to endure.
Virginia Woolf
#3. Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.
Theodore Roosevelt
#4. The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and sympathy are also stronger than ever before.
Theodore Roosevelt
#5. It is not courage that makes us speak the truth, but it is a hunger for truth that makes us courageous
Agona Apell
#6. Be real. Be you and don't you dare apologize for who you are ever again.
Catrice M. Jackson
#7. The past will only catch you, if you ran from it to begin with.
Nikki Rowe
#9. False reasons trapped in your old bean. Failure isn't your nemesis, denial of truth is.
Ymatruz
#10. Truth is the highest knowledge.
Faith is the highest courage.
Reason is the highest wisdom.
Love is the highest virtue.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#11. Giving style to one's character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#12. So the next time you encounter fear, consider yourself lucky. This is where the courage comes in. Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.
Pema Chodron
#13. As long as we don't get turned into something that looks more like high school, more like everybody else and less like us, I'll be okay.
Adi Alsaid
#14. It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.
Archibald Alexander Hodge
#15. If I am inclined to doubt, steady my faith; if I am tempted, make me strong to resist; if I should miss the mark, give me courage to try again. Guide me with the light of truth and grant me wisdom by which I may understand the answer to my prayer.
Ronie Kendig
#16. The simple truth is that being a creative artist takes courage; it's not a job for the faint of heart. It takes courage each and every time you put a book or poem or painting before the public, because it is, in fact, enormously revealing.
Terri Windling
#17. 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
#18. A true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#19. Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#21. How much more money do we have to waste, how many more families have to be destroyed, how many more people have to be killed before you summon the courage to tell the truth to the American people?
Don Winslow
#22. I don't know how old you are. But I know the lie you hear. You are too young. You are too old. You don't know enough, or you know too much. The truth is that courage doesn't have an expiration date. Courage doesn't have a marker that says, "You must be taller than THIS to ride this ride.
Annie F. Downs
#23. Not less strong than the will to truth must be the will to sincerity. Only an age, which can show the courage of sincerity, can possess truth, which works as a spiritual force within it.
Albert Schweitzer
#24. Who you are in public is a test of your conviction; who you are in private, integrity.
Criss Jami
#25. It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth.
Bertrand Russell
#26. Dignity is never silent. It has a voice, heart and soul. Truth and courage is its foundation. It will stand against the masses and speak the truth. Because every great person has always done what others found fear in doing.
Shannon L. Alder
#27. You are a winner when you have the courage to face the adversity and endure the difficulties.
Debasish Mridha
#28. There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
- Seneca
Seneca.
#29. You wake up oneday and it's different, not so much in a physical way but in the way you look at things. I think when you reach that primary moment in your life, you finally have the courage to let go of the human attachments and start to live in a way that compliments your heart and soul.
Nikki Rowe
#30. If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.
Frances Wright
#31. Peer beyond the wall of doubt to embrace the possibilities.
Truth Devour
#32. 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
#33. Science is imagination in the service of the verifiable truth, and that service is indeed communal. It cannot be rigidly planned. Rather, it requires freedom and courage and the plural contributions of many different kinds of people who must maintain their individuality while giving to the group.
Gerald Edelman
#34. Statesmen exhibit five key commitments: 1) A commitment to principles above politics; 2) An ability to compromise without abandoning principle; 3) A commitment to truth over spin; 4) A commitment to courage over cowardice; and 5) A commitment, or willingness, to give up power.
Tom Coburn
#35. He went into a dark tower of truth for you. Do you have the courage to give him your own name?
Patricia A. McKillip
#36. It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.
George R R Martin
#37. And, Father, most of all, you taught
Me there's a Pow'r in love that naught
Can thwart, and that it moves where truth
And courage speak, and neither youth
Nor age can hinder its success,
But only fear and quietness.
John Piper
#38. When you have the courage to tell the truth about what you're really afraid of, fear doesn't have control over your life.
Ali Vincent
#39. Allow yourself to celebrate your sense of freedom , your capacity to make a choice and your strength in facing the truth. Not everyone has the courage to do so, even if it hurts ... ... Knowing is KEY to acceptance.
Abby Espiritu
#40. For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it's a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself.
Deepak Chopra
#41. Herein lies the heart and soul of the nations.
Their right to be free men,
Their desire to live in peace,
Their courage to seek out truth,
Herein lies the Sword of Shannara.
Terry Brooks
#42. I want to stand on the truth that God has designed us to stand, and that the opportunity to stand is the opportunity to live exuberantly and gloriously.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#43. You cannot learn from the mistakes of the past if you do not have the truth. You cannot make amends for mistakes if you do not have the truth. You cannot build a future if you do not have the truth. A nation cannot survive if it does not have the courage and the strength to face the truth.
P.B. Wells
#44. And you finally get there, you reach a point where you refuse to feel anymore pain and the desire to chase happiness out weighs any choice that gives you reason to question where you're headed.
Nikki Rowe
#45. Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
Walter Scott
#46. Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.
Vaclav Havel
#47. There were parts of Monk she admired greatly: his courage; his strength of will; his intelligence; his loyalty to his beliefs; his passion for justice; his ability to face almost any kind of truth, no matter how dreadful; and the fact that he was never, ever, a hypocrite.
Anne Perry
#48. It has forever been thus: So long as men write what they think, then all of the other freedoms - all of them - may remain intact. And it is then that writing becomes a weapon of truth, an article of faith, an act of courage.
Rod Serling
#49. Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
#50. Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
#51. The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#52. 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
#53. I wish I could claim I faced my first day of apostasy with courage and certainty. Yet in truth, I had never felt more afraid.
David Ebershoff
#55. Everybody's got their opinion on who they think you are or how strong or how weak you are, but at the end of the day all that matters is who you know you are, don't ever forget that.
Tilicia Haridat
#56. Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
Spencer Johnson
#57. She wore her battle scars like wings, looking at her you would never know that once upon a time she forgot how to fly
Nikki Rowe
#58. Courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say.
Seth
#59. The universe conspires to reveal the truth and to make your path easy if you have the courage to follow the signs.
Lisa Unger
#60. When life presents you with a problem, show the courage, make yourself a hundred times bigger than the problem.
Debasish Mridha
#61. Courage, ne'er by sorrow broken! Aid where tears of virtue flow; Faith to keep each promise spoken! Truth alike to friend and foe!
Friedrich Schiller
#62. Parents must have the courage to say no, to defend truth, and to bear powerful testimony.
Quentin L. Cook
#63. He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It is only the last and wildest kind of courage that can stand on a tower before ten thousand people and tell them that twice two is four.
G.K. Chesterton
#64. What a wonderful time to be young. You will see events in your lifetime that will test your courage and extend your faith. If you will face the sunlight of truth, the shadows of discouragement and sin and error will fall behind you. You must never give up!
Boyd K. Packer
#65. They thought he was scared all the time because he was a coward. The truth was, only he could see the world clearly enough to know how truly scary it was.
Simon R. Green
#66. None of us wants to see the truth of what is right in front of us, do they? But for our protection, we must not sugar-coat the truth. We must have the courage to see people for what they are.
Sandra Byrd
#67. You told me to tell the truth, and this is exactly why I didn't want to. You want me to think I'm selfish."
"I want you to own your thoughts and actions, and not be afraid of them. Accepting your limitations is every bit as important as embracing your strengths.
Dawn Jayne
#68. Truth is dangerous. Its so painful and unnecessary. But if you find the courage to face it - it will turn your world upside down and make you a better man.
M.K. Tasker
M.K. Tasker
#69. Open your mind a little, don't believe everything you hear, see or read, the world is so caught up in trying to avoid the topics that matter that you'll lose yourself trying to become like it.
Nikki Rowe
#70. Given a choice between life and death, choose life. Given a choice between right and wrong, choose what's right. And given a choice between a terrible truth and a beautiful lie, choose the truth every time.
Mira Grant
#71. A true prophet would rather be believed false by many but actually true than believed true by many but actually false.
Criss Jami
#72. But I think the thing that takes
me the most courage is realizing that as many oceans as I
might cross, the stupid simple truth will always be on the
other side.
Ava Dellaira
#73. Great men tell the truth and are never believed. Lesser men are always believed, but seldom have the brains or the courage to tell the truth.
Kenneth Roberts
#74. It takes courage to become authentic. So many talk about the light but not enough speak the truth about the struggles it takes to get there and the tools to overcome it all.
Nikki Rowe
#75. When you really want something, you will give up a million times, but your heart keeps taking you back to the starting line.
Shannon L. Alder
#76. Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#77. The greatest act of courage is to be and to ownall of who you are - without apology, without excuses, without masks to cover the truth of who you are.
Debbie Ford
#78. What is morality, she asked.
Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price.
Ayn Rand
#79. Walk the path your heart beats faster on.
Nikki Rowe
#80. MFA in a Box is designed to help you to find the courage to put truth into words and to understand that writing is a life-and-death endeavor - but that nothing about a life-and-death endeavor keeps it from being laugh-out-loud funny.
John Rember
#81. The truth is that there was a something about Peter which goaded the pirate captain to frenzy. It was not his courage, it was not his engaging appearance, it was not--. There is no beating about the bush, for we know quite well what it was, and have got to tell. It was Peter's cockiness. This
J.M. Barrie
#82. People had not so much as the courage and honesty and truth to say to God bluntly, "That I cannot agree to," they resorted to hypocrisy and thought they were perfectly secure. pp 168-6
Soren Kierkegaard
#83. Only a bet on the impossible makes sense. It is an act of faith and courage requiring an irrational leap over reason. A man wins simply by making such a bet.
William Kennedy
#84. If anything I urge you to live bravely and beyond your own comfort zone.
Nikki Rowe
#85. Gentlemen, here is a truth: Enduring tedium over real time in a confined space is what real courage is ... True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care
with no one there to see or cheer.
David Foster Wallace
#86. The truth, my friend, is an awesome thing, to be handled with wisdom and with courage denied to ordinary people. Most of us must make do with illusions. Or else
or else we could not endure.
Ruth Tessler Goldstein
#87. To have arrived at the truth means that one no longer fears death. For death and truth are similar in that they both require a great courage if one wishes to face them.
Nawal El Saadawi
#88. ...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
#89. No people in the world other than the English would have had the courage, in the midst of war, to tell the people such unvarnished truth.
Anton Walbrook
#90. Truth telling is an investment we must make in relationships - whether personal or professional. It takes a lot of time and thought, and sometimes, courage. However, there is probably not another investment of time that pays a greater dividend when done well.
Dee Ann Turner
#91. We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, "I am suffering," than to say, "This landscape is ugly.
Simone Weil
#92. Find the courage to ask yourself the questions your afraid to hear the answer to? Why ... Because it's the only way you'll know which direction your truth lays.
Nikki Rowe
#93. Knowing the truth is so minuscule compared to having the nerve to say it ... and even more to live it.
Criss Jami
#94. Courage is the only asset That will conquer in the fight If you have the will to mass it On the lines of truth and right.
Jack Crawford
#95. And the truth must finally lie in that which every oppressed individual feels within himself but hasn't the courage to express
Wilhelm Reich
#96. The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth,
Goodness, and Beauty.
Albert Einstein
#97. Only the Catholic Church protested against the Hitlerian onslaught on liberty. Up till then I had not been interested in the Church, but today I feel a great admiration for the Church, which alone has had the courage to struggle for spiritual truth and moral liberty
Albert Einstein
#98. Your words will either give you joy or give you sorrow, but if they were spoken without regret, they give you peace.
Shannon L. Alder
#100. If a marker were to be erected today, it might read, in homage to his scientific courage: He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions.
Carl Sagan
