Top 100 It Takes Courage To Quotes
#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. 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
#5. Authenticity inspire respect because it takes courage to own who you really are.
Arlene Dickinson
#6. 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
#7. Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.
Jenny Shipley
#8. It takes courage to speak up for your beliefs.
Jim George
#9. it takes courage to look life in the eye and say yes to the messy glory
Deborah Wiles
#10. Courage is a greater virtue than love. At best, it takes courage to love.
Paul Tillich
#11. Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself
Charlie Chaplin
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. It takes courage to step out of the line marked 'security' into the line marked 'risk.'
Robert G. Allen
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. It takes courage to live in the midst of hate. And it requires strength to keep that hatred from eating your soul.
Mari Serebrov
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. Anyone can stay the same. It takes courage to change
John Assaraf
#22. I knew people want most what they pretend to hate, that it takes courage to say what you really want.
Darcey Steinke
#23. 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
#24. It is in the expectations of happiness that much of happiness itself is found. And it takes courage to expect happiness.
Earl Nightingale
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. The easiest decision you could make is judge, it takes courage to search for the truth.
Abraham Ruiz
#28. It takes courage to do what you want. Other people have a lot of plans for you ... Follow your bliss.
Joseph Campbell
#29. It takes courage to begin something, but it can take even more to end it.
Marie Forleo
#30. It's easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone
Mahatma Gandhi
#31. 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
#34. It's important to be fearless yet vulnerable. It takes courage to do both.
Nicole Scherzinger
#35. It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
E. E. Cummings
#36. It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. Cummings
#38. 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
#39. It takes courage to seek God, and courage to wait for His reply.
John Eldredge
#40. It takes courage to violate expectations, but sometimes the reward is a new level of success.
Donald Maass
#41. 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
#42. It takes courage to live. It takes even more courage to wonder. But it takes the greatest courage of all to believe.
Katlyn Charlesworth
#44. 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
#45. It takes bravery to recognize where in your life you are your own poison ... it takes courage to do something about it.
Steve Maraboli
#46. It takes courage to dream big and then to allow nothing to prevent you from realizing that dream.
Tony DiCicco
#47. It takes courage to speak up against complacency and injustice while others remain silent. But that's what leadership is.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#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. It takes courage to live your truth. But what you get in return is self-respect.
Auliq Ice
#55. 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
#56. Humans are cowards in the face of happiness. It takes courage to hold on to happiness.
Novala Takemoto
#57. It takes courage to stand for what you believe in.
James Jones
#58. Discouragement is like a scorpion in your shoe; it takes courage to toss it out so you can move on.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#59. 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
#60. It takes courage to be the author of your life.
Nicholas Lore
#61. It takes courage to die for a cause, but also to live for one.
Azar Nafisi
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. Anybody can wine and dine, but it takes courage to truly Shine.-RVM
R.v.m.
#66. It takes courage to push things forward.
Mo Mowlam
#67. I think people are afraid of either failing or succeeding. It takes courage to feel the fear and feel the risk.
John Assaraf
#68. It takes courage to believe the best is yet to come!
Robin Roberts
#69. 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
#70. It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
Erica Jong
#71. 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
#72. It takes courage to face the sunshine.
K.A. Hosein
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have an idea, you become a minority of one.
E. Paul Torrance
#76. 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
#77. It takes constant vigilance not to slip into negativity or simple apathy. It takes courage to believe over any given period of time that we are getting better and not sliding into decline.
Julia Cameron
#78. It takes courage to recognize the real as opposed to the convenient.
Judi Dench
#79. It does not take courage to kill. It takes courage to live.
Renee Ahdieh
#80. It takes courage to create your own identity, to stop believing old stories about who you are or that limit who you can be.
Christie Ridgway
#81. Anyone can love you when things are alright. It takes courage to love when things are not good and it does not feel right.
Yolanda Adams
#83. Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.
Oscar Wilde
#84. It takes courage to own up your actions that hurt others, to look Into the eye and to mean the sorry, To accept the mistake and not deny, all of this needs courage.
Mansi Soni
#85. It takes courage to sit on a jury. How many of us want to decide the fate of another person's life or freedom? How many of us want to hold that kind of power in our hands?
Regina Brett
#86. It takes courage to love someone because it's a wonderful adventure.
Debasish Mridha
#87. It takes courage to stand up for yourself. I stand in honor, and no longer in fear of speaking out.
Catherine Jane Fisher
#88. It takes courage ... to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.
Marianne Williamson
#90. I feel it's okay to get angry with God. He can take it. Just don't stay angry. It takes courage to believe that the best is yet to come. I hold steadfast to that belief, especially when I come face-to-face with adversity.
Robin Roberts
#91. And remember it takes great courage and heart for a man who knows no kindness to show it to another. Even the wildest of beasts can be tamed by a patient and gentle hand.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#92. I've always said it takes more courage to stand back there and throw a ball knowing you're fixing to get drilled than anything I can think of in football.
Bobby Bowden
#93. At my age, people prefer to stay in a relationship that is not working. I do not understand that. I think it takes a lot of courage to separate. But it takes more energy to stay in something that is not working.
Isabel Allende
#94. It takes great courage to write great books. Find your courage and find your voice.
Kristen Lamb
#95. Surrender is not giving up, far from it. Surrender takes an enormous amount of courage. Often we are only capable of doing so when the pain of trying to control the outcome becomes too much to bear.
Bronnie Ware
#96. You wouldn't be the first trainee to fail, you know. You won't be the last, either. It takes real courage to submit." Ashley's
Claire Thompson
#97. Just know that it takes a bit of courage to unlearn that shame, and to be there for others when they try to unlearn that shame, and that it all gets easier after you feel how healthy it is.
Hugh Howey
#98. 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
#99. And therein shines one major definition of what it meant to be Clinton D. Powell: someone who looked for, trusted in, and helped empower (if you will) the best in others. It takes a lot of beautiful love, uncommon sincerity, and spitfire courage to do that.
Aberjhani
#100. I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.
Martha Stewart
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