Top 100 It Takes Courage Sayings
#1. It takes courage to stay young, to make your enthusiasms work for you. Don't let anyone drag you down.
Ken Adam
#2. It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe it.
C.S. Lewis
#3. He knew then why his voice had abandoned him. Because it takes courage to talk to people.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#4. Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.
Pablo Casals
#5. Leading a missional church is not for the faint of heart. It takes courage to push yourself beyond your comfort zone and to lead the church beyond it personal limits.
Gary Rohrmayer
#6. Authenticity inspire respect because it takes courage to own who you really are.
Arlene Dickinson
#7. In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential. It's no different in the financial realm
Suze Orman
#8. Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.
Jenny Shipley
#9. It takes courage to speak up for your beliefs.
Jim George
#10. it takes courage to look life in the eye and say yes to the messy glory
Deborah Wiles
#11. Courage is a greater virtue than love. At best, it takes courage to love.
Paul Tillich
#12. Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself
Charlie Chaplin
#13. There is nothing in back of this cafe. Since the place sits right on the margin between the edge of the world and infinite possibility, he back door opens out to a void. It takes courage to turn the knob and heart to leave the steps.
Gloria Naylor
#14. Actually, we have no problems-we have opportunities for which we should give thanks ... An error we refuse to correct has many lives. It takes courage to face one's own shortcomings and wisdom to do something about them.
Edgar Cayce
#15. It takes courage to step out of the line marked 'security' into the line marked 'risk.'
Robert G. Allen
#16. Courage does not take over, it fights and struggles through every word you say and every step you take. It's a battle or a dance as to whether you let it pervade. It takes courage to overcome, but it takes extreme fear to be courageous.
Cecelia Ahern
#17. It takes courage to say goodbye. To stare at a thing lost and know it is gone forever. Some tears are iron forged.
Jay Kristoff
#18. 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
#19. It takes courage to live in the midst of hate. And it requires strength to keep that hatred from eating your soul.
Mari Serebrov
#20. Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find conformity more comfortable. This is why the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity.
Rollo May
#21. Courage is not always about action. It takes courage to do nothing rather than do something that you do not believe in or understand.
Suze Orman
#22. Anyone can stay the same. It takes courage to change
John Assaraf
#23. I knew people want most what they pretend to hate, that it takes courage to say what you really want.
Darcey Steinke
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. It is in the expectations of happiness that much of happiness itself is found. And it takes courage to expect happiness.
Earl Nightingale
#27. It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before ... to test yout limits ... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossum.
Anais Nin
#28. Innovation journey is like taking a hiking trip at the trail very few or even no people ever went before, it takes courage and emotional maturity.
Pearl Zhu
#29. It takes courage to set priorities because doing so is an admission that American policy cannot be all things to all people - or rather to all interest groups
Condoleezza Rice
#30. Launching a brand is not for those with thin skin. It takes courage, intelligence and foresight.
David Brier
#31. The easiest decision you could make is judge, it takes courage to search for the truth.
Abraham Ruiz
#32. It takes courage to do what you want. Other people have a lot of plans for you ... Follow your bliss.
Joseph Campbell
#33. It takes courage to begin something, but it can take even more to end it.
Marie Forleo
#34. It's easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone
Mahatma Gandhi
#35. There is a life you can love, but it takes courage, perseverance, and a little cunning to get there. It takes a warrior.
John Eldredge
#36. It takes curiosity to find your call to adventure, it takes courage to venture into the unknown, and it takes imagination to create your path.
Sean Patrick
#37. It takes courage and skill to be unambiguous and clear.
Peter Senge
#41. It's important to be fearless yet vulnerable. It takes courage to do both.
Nicole Scherzinger
#42. It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
E. E. Cummings
#43. It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. Cummings
#45. It takes courage to create,' he said. 'People are afraid of embarrassing themselves by not being good enough.'
Or maybe even by showing who they really are.
Claire Cook
#46. It takes courage to seek God, and courage to wait for His reply.
John Eldredge
#47. It takes courage and humility to recognize we are as messed up as the drug addict next door, and many of us never get that honest.
Judah Smith
#48. It takes courage to violate expectations, but sometimes the reward is a new level of success.
Donald Maass
#49. It's only when ye ken ye can say no that it takes courage.
Diana Gabaldon
#50. In the face of impermanence and death, it takes courage to love the things of this world and to believe that praising them is our noblest calling.
Joanna Macy
#51. It takes courage, motivation, discipline, and persistence to get out of comfort zone.
Pearl Zhu
#52. It takes courage to live. It takes even more courage to wonder. But it takes the greatest courage of all to believe.
Katlyn Charlesworth
#54. 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
#55. It takes bravery to recognize where in your life you are your own poison ... it takes courage to do something about it.
Steve Maraboli
#56. Sometimes it takes courage - maybe all the courage you've got - to just live life.
Douglas Preston
#57. It takes courage for people to listen to their own goodness and act on it.
Pablo Casals
#58. It takes courage to dream big and then to allow nothing to prevent you from realizing that dream.
Tony DiCicco
#59. It takes courage to speak up against complacency and injustice while others remain silent. But that's what leadership is.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
#60. It takes courage to remove our masks. But it takes greater courage to allow those we care about to remove their own masks when they are with us. When we grant others the opportunity to be open and vulnerable, that is when we can see the truth. In them. And in ourselves.
Lisa Mangum
#61. It takes courage to get clear about what your vision of the work is and to be persistent about it and pursue it, whatever you're saying. I'm still in a long learning process.
Joan Larkin
#62. It is easy to hate and blame but it takes courage and love to appreciate.
Debasish Mridha
#63. In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
Henrik Ibsen
#64. It takes courage to say, "I need help" and to be vulnerable and accept advice from people who may be wiser than you are. It takes courage to die to ourselves so we can become fully alive in a love and hope and freedom that only come when we do push our pride away.
Anne Jackson
#65. It takes courage not only to make decisions, but to live with those decisions afterward
Mike Krzyzewski
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. It takes courage, strength, and conviction to love someone deeply, persistently, and endlessly.
Debasish Mridha
#69. 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
#70. It takes courage to live your truth. But what you get in return is self-respect.
Auliq Ice
#71. It takes courage to look like an idiot possibly and fall and fail but that's what it takes to learn to succeed so you have to be willing to practice or rehearse to work your risk muscle.
John Assaraf
#72. Humans are cowards in the face of happiness. It takes courage to hold on to happiness.
Novala Takemoto
#73. It takes courage to stand for what you believe in.
James Jones
#74. Discouragement is like a scorpion in your shoe; it takes courage to toss it out so you can move on.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#75. The arts can open the door to the imagination, pushing the envelope of how peace can be created. It takes courage to take this kind of risk, and courage is what we all need to create a better world.
Wayne Shorter
#76. Writing a novel takes creativity. Publishing it takes courage
M.L. Kilian
#77. It takes courage to be the author of your life.
Nicholas Lore
#78. It takes courage to die for a cause, but also to live for one.
Azar Nafisi
#79. It takes courage to reinvent joys, to reinvent opportunities, to reinvent dreams, to reinvent connections, to reinvent hopes that you have set aside.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#80. Seems to me you must always have been afraid to be young. It takes courage, I can tell you that,
L.M. Montgomery
#81. It takes courage to realize that you are greater than your moods, greater than your thoughts, and that you can control your moods and thoughts.
Stephen Covey
#82. It takes courage to trust God when unsaved family and friends think it is a bit radical or irresponsible to trust God with our problems.
Debbie Alsdorf
#83. Anybody can wine and dine, but it takes courage to truly Shine.-RVM
R.v.m.
#85. It takes courage to push things forward.
Mo Mowlam
#86. I think people are afraid of either failing or succeeding. It takes courage to feel the fear and feel the risk.
John Assaraf
#87. It takes courage to believe the best is yet to come!
Robin Roberts
#88. 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
#89. It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
Erica Jong
#90. When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots. They can't get away with their abuse. They can't get away with subjection. They can't get away with subjugation. They can't get away with exploitation. They can't get away with domination. It takes courage for folk to stand up.
Cornel West
#91. Achievement requires more than a vision - it takes courage, resolve and tenacity. All you have got to do is plant that seed in your mind, care for it, work steadily toward your goal, and it will become a reality
Earl Nightingale
#92. The Apocalypse is not something out there that will eradicate everything on planet Earth. That would be far too simple. The Apocalypse is in each and every one of us. It takes courage to fight the beast.
Tori Amos
#93. It takes courage to face the sunshine.
K.A. Hosein
#94. It takes courage, of course, to step out of the fray, as it takes courage to do anything that's necessary, whether tending to a loved one on her deathbed or turning away from that sugarcoated doughnut.
Pico Iyer
#95. 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
#96. I have too much respect for people to try to control them. But they are estranged from love, afraid to reach out and touch one another. We're afraid to appear sentimental or speak in platitudes because people will say, 'What a jerk!' It takes courage in our culture to be a lover.
Leo Buscaglia
#97. The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.
Carson Daly
#98. 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
#99. It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have an idea, you become a minority of one.
E. Paul Torrance
#100. Sarah Vaughan is one of my greatest heroes. She personifies what an artist is all about, taking risks, daring to go beyond the boundaries of safety and convention. It takes courage to share your vulnerability.
Claron McFadden
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