Quotes About Courageous People

#1. Stop trying to get me to write about 'decent courageous people'
read the Ladies' Home Journal for those! ... I believe in going through and facing the worst, not hiding from it.

Sylvia Plath

#2. Courageous people know that saying 'no' to one idea enables them to say 'yes' to another.

Frank Sonnenberg

#3. Today it is time for strong and courageous people because only they can achieve victory and rid the world of tyranny.

Wladyslaw Sikorski

#4. I always thought that courageous people were those who were not afraid. Meeting Franciszka and her daughter, I realize that courageous people are afraid like everyone else. They just act despite the fear.

J.L. Witterick

#5. I love the gray areas, but I like the gray areas as considered by bright, educated, courageous people.

Alan Furst

#6. Courageous people feel the same fear everyone else does, they just decide to not be afraid anymore.

Bob Goff

#7. I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.

Alice Walker

#8. Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

Nelson Mandela

#9. Courageous people run toward the problem rather than away from it.

Frank Sonnenberg

#10. Courageous people are not afraid to fail. So often in life and in sports, we're afraid to fail. Instead, we should attack things with excitement and enthusiasm and think about the positives as opposed to the negatives.

Matt Cullen

#11. You are one of those courageous people who want to dare to live; and to do so believe you have to explore the depths of yourself, undistracted and unprotected by social conventions and norms.

Sara Maitland

#12. If you are courageous, people say you are boastful or "too known". You either choose to accept what they say to you and you need to accept it with its consequences. The consequence is that you will remain where you are!

Israelmore Ayivor

#13. Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty.

Hosea Ballou

#14. Courageous people are still afraid, but they don't let the fear paralyze them.

Steve Pavlina

#15. Since strict obedience is demanded and harshly enforced, only the least talented, least articulate, least nuanced thinkers, least likely to take a stand against abuse, and the least courageous people thrive in the Church today.

Kate Kelly

#16. Courageous people know that old ways of doing things shouldn't stand in the way of a better solution.

Frank Sonnenberg

#17. Sometimes Matilda longed for a friend, someone like the kind, courageous people in her books.

Roald Dahl

#18. Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.

Judith Guest

#19. The only people who think writing is easy are people who don't write. Writing's a difficult, courageous act. Bravery is required, as well as a great deal of slogging along. A lot of our work is work.

Gillian Roberts

#20. People say to me all the time, 'You have no fear.' I tell them, 'No, that's not true. I'm scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.'

Ronda Rousey

#21. I do know one thing: I wish people were doing more dangerous musicals, more courageous musicals and not just falling into the trap of trying to figure out what the public wants, because you find out that the public very often wants what's good.

Hal Price

#22. I'm always embarrassed when people say that I'm courageous. Soldiers are courageous. Policemen are courageous. Firemen are courageous. I just have a thick hide and disregard what silly people say.

Thomas Sowell

#23. I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.

Mahmoud Abbas

#24. People ask me, what special is in my mentorship which has made Malala so bold and so courageous and so vocal and poised? I tell them, don't ask me what I did. Ask me what I did not do. I did not clip her wings, and that's all.

Ziauddin Yousafzai

#25. Standing alone scares alot of people it means they have to be themselves and more often than not they haven't the slightest clue who they've been all this time & that's why people stay the same because it's a frightening choice to step away from the crowd.

Nikki Rowe

#26. For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those obligations imposed on the American people as a whole by the beautiful, compassionate and courageous principle of noblesse oblige.

Robert W. Welch Jr.

#27. Mediocrity is the companion of passivity and will not heed the call of great things. Courage is the companion of sacrifice and cannot help but heed the call of great things. And we are left of our own accord to choose one or the other.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#28. Turns out, people's brains are not nearly as powerful a motivator as our hearts. Facts, data, and economic models don't move people to courageous action the way that powerful stories can.

Annie Leonard

#29. Reality TV is to popular because it allows so many people to sit on the sidelines and just watch somebody else's life. God is saying, 'Don't sit on the sidelines of life. I have put so much in you, but you have got to be strong and very courageous. You have got to step out in faith.'

Victoria Osteen

#30. The adivasi people have a long and courageous history of resistance that predates the birth of Maoism. To look upon them as brainless puppets being manipulated by a few middle-class Maoist ideologues is to do them something of a disservice.

Arundhati Roy

#31. There needs to be people with courageous hearts willing to talk real, willing to live wild and willing to conquer depths in which most are afraid of- their the people we aspire to be.

Nikki Rowe

#32. At the root of the assault on our liberties is, in fact, an assault on our character
an assault that assumes that we are not good enough to be free, and that aims to make sure that we are no longer strong enough, courageous enough, disciplined enough to be a free people.

Alan Keyes

#33. You might just be the craziest person I've ever know, but you're also the bravest. - Marcus

J. Scott Savage

#34. People on the Spiritual Path are not anemic. They must be sharp, strong, and courageous. Being Spiritual means being Powerful, Dynamic, and Intelligent.

Choa Kok Sui

#35. When you become healthy, courageous, and hopeful, following your conscience becomes much easier. When people are healthy, courageous, and hopeful, it's difficult to bend their mind and will. They will speak out what they believe, and stand up and do what is right even when it means a loss to them.

Ilchi Lee

#36. Everyday there are people in our world that do absolutely amazing things. People of all ages are very capable of doing tremendous, courageous things in spite of their fear.

Mairead Corrigan

#37. A High Performance team requires people with High Performance Mindsets, with relevant competence, committed and balanced communication, to a meaningful and challenging goal.

Tony Dovale

#38. I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.

Harrison Ford

#39. I think a pixie cut is so cute. I just think that everyone that has one is the most courageous person. It's so daring to do that! I get geeked out by people when they do that. They're awesome. Would I do it? Maybe.

Blake Lively

#40. When you see people with "the right stuff," those who choose the right over the wrong or the "iffy," let them know you're proud of them. Encourage the courageous, so they'll have the will to carry on.

Price Pritchett

#41. It is astonishing that Monod's Les Adieux are not better known. This courageous French Reformed pastor was both passionate in his care for people and singular in his devotion to God.

William Edgar

#42. Jeremy used to hate it when she was younger because someone in her class told her redheads were freaks of nature.But our mother told her that redheads were genetically more courageous than other people and that she should always where her hair long,like a wariors badge of honor.

Ellen Potter

#43. I can't say enough about how I'm against drugs. Be smart, think about it, look at what it does to people, look at how much you have to experience in life and be courageous enough to do everything you want to without that chemical help.

Erika Christensen

#44. My happiness will not be ruined by people who can not find their own.

April WIlliams

#45. Let's be courageous in these days. Let's choose love and rest and grace. Let's use our minutes and hours to create memories with the people we love instead of dragging them on one more errand or shushing them while we accomplish one more seemingly necessary thing.

Shauna Niequist

#46. Bergman was courageous in choosing people to do things that they themselves might not expect to play.

Max Von Sydow

#47. The brave aren't called the brave because they weren't scared, Elena, neither the courageous, nor the heroes. All of those people written in history have one thing in common: fear, and plenty of it, but that is when true courage shows itself

Adrienne Woods

#48. Greatness is telling the truth & being courageous in pursuit of justice. The worst thing you could tell young people is to be successful but become well-adjusted to an unjust status quo as opposed to being great & being maladjusted to an unjust status quo.

Cornel West

#49. Opening your heart and being courageous and telling people that you care about them or like them or that you think they're special only makes you a better, bigger, kinder, softer, more loving person, and only attracts more love into your life.

Amy Poehler

#50. Limitless Leadership is the secret ingredient that helps common people, create high performance teams, that achieve outstanding and uncommon results.

Tony Dovale

#51. You have to be courageous to not spend money, ... and we don't have many people who have that courage..

Tom Coburn

#52. Courage is an act of grace when it is not required; it originates from an inner necessity to honor, love, and cherish people, and respect oneself.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#53. In wheelchair sports, people thought athletes with disabilities were courageous and inspirational. They never give them credit for simply being competitive.

Jean Driscoll

#54. Most people are interested in success, but not COMMITTED to success, which is why 85%+ of people seldom achieve their desired level of success.

Tony Dovale

#55. 12Be of good courage, and let us be courageous for our people, and for the cities of our God, and may the LORD do what seems good to him.

Anonymous

#56. People who build their own home tend to be very courageous. These people are curious about life. They're thinking about what it means to live in a house, rather than just buying a commodity and making it work.

Tom Kundig

#57. And now Abbie had the new experience of attempting to keep another person courageous. It was more trying than to keep up her own spirits. Why must she always be strong for other people?

Bess Streeter Aldrich

#58. Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.

Mary Wesley

#59. Now if I go through it again, I think I would be a lot more open about it. I admire people who have been open like Melissa Ethridge and women I see walking around facing it without wigs and all of that stuff. I think I would be more courageous next time.

Kathy Bates

#60. People will always have opinions about your decision because they're not courageous enough to take action on their opinion.

Steve Maraboli

#61. Our young Marines of today are courageous, willing to make sacrifices, and are marvelous team players. I am confident our Corps, and indeed our Nation, will be in great shape for a long time to come as these people continue to grow and assume greater positions of responsibility.

James T. Conway

#62. A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying - but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.

Bernie Siegel

#63. In 'The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow,' part of the 'Dear America' series, I took my childhood bravery and stubbornness and put that at the core of the Navajo girl, Sarah Nita. It helped me to identify with her survival and to write about her courageous journey and that of her people.

Ann Turner

#64. I once wrote a book on courage and what made people courageous. I found it was a strength of belief matched by a strength of willpower.

Gordon Brown

#65. It's interesting to note that the most kind and courageous souls you meet in life tend to be those who've faced the most cruelty and conflict. This vicious world might sharpen us like a blade, but whether we use that power to protect people or cause them pain is always our choice.

Beau Taplin

#66. Lots of people misunderstand this. They think not experiencing fear means they're courageous. Bravery isn't about not being afraid, it's about persevering despite your fears.

Kim Du-han

#67. People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.

Gabrielle Giffords

#68. Choosing the right people to surround you, and letting go of the wrong ones, takes courage.

Be courageous!

Tony Curl

#69. To be ignored or rejected by people you know doesn't change God's plan about your life and your dreams He has given you. His plan about your life is wayward than the man's approval of your creativity. Keep moving forward with your head held high.

Euginia Herlihy

#70. I love experienced people. I love people who are phenomenally talented. I love people who've worked so hard and been so courageous and are the leaders in their fields. For me to meet somebody like that and learn from them and share words with them -to me that's magic.

Michael Jackson

#71. Luther King gave people "the feeling that they could be bigger and stronger and more courageous than they thought they could be," Bayard Rustin said - in part because of the powerful new weapon, non-violent resistance, that had been forged on the Montgomery battlefield.

Robert A. Caro

#72. To be courageous , you have to have an army of people holding you.

Reese Witherspoon

#73. Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it ...

Wilferd Peterson

#74. I'm never more courageous than when I'm embracing imperfection, embracing vulnerabilities, and setting boundaries with the people in my life.

Brene Brown

#75. The history of God's people is not a record of God searching for courageous men and women who could handle the task, but God transforming the hearts of cowards and calling them to live courageous lives.

Erwin McManus

#76. You don't have to be a Brad Pitt look-alike hero just to be courageous and help out your friends and come through when it really matters. I think everyone can sort of relate to that in some way, particularly back to people's school days.

Matthew Lewis

#77. A person must always be ready to kindle the candle in their heart and fill the void in their soul by unveiling into a courageous, peaceful, and loving person.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#78. I wonder if people will ever say, "Let's hear about Frodo and the Ring." And they'll say, "Yes, that's one of my favorite stories. Frodo was really courageous, wasn't he, Dad?" "Yes, m'boy, the most famousest of hobbits. And that's saying a lot.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#79. I think people are frightened by different things, so I don't see myself as particularly courageous.

Robyn Davidson

#80. Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy," Wren said. "It's the noblest, like, the most courageous thing two people can shoot for.

Rainbow Rowell

#81. There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get along, but that's not going to be very helpful for us in the long run, in terms of solving our problems. And somebody has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to, you know, the bullies.

Ben Carson

#82. This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity.

Lech Walesa

#83. Everything we do is about getting people to be more open, more creative, more courageous.

Jack Dorsey

#84. You will find that people will always have opinions about your decisions. Don't take it personally, it's simply because they're not courageous enough to take action in their own lives. Be a leader in your life and pay no mind to those who lack the courage to do the same in theirs.

Steve Maraboli