Quotes About Having Courage

#1. One of the characteristics of successful scientists is having courage. Once you get your courage up and believe that you can do important problems, then you can. If you think you can't, almost surely you are not going to.

Richard Hamming

#2. Today, valor and courage are hard to find. People are fickle, angry, resentful and selfish. It stops them from having courage and fighting for something larger than oneself.

C. Gockel

#3. Having courage does not mean that we are unafraid. Having courage and showing courage means we face our fears.

Maya Angelou

#4. Sometimes having courage means the hardest tasks fall onto your shoulders, and those leave the biggest scars.

C.J. Redwine

#5. Having courage does not mean we are unafraid.

Maya Angelou

#6. Being brave is not the absence of fear, but having courage greater than it to dare!

Manuela George-Izunwa

#7. Being true to ourselves is about having courage to define our own version of what it is to live a successful life.

Henna Inam

#8. Courage is so rare nowadays, that one gets cornered for having courage of conviction and living by one's ideals. However it is great to be cornered, since the corner with courage is never too crowded.

Jeroninio Almeida

#9. Newman cast a despairing glance at his small store of fuel, but, not having the courage to say no-a word which in all his life he never had said at the right time, either to himself or anyone else-gave way to the proposed arrangement.

Charles Dickens

#10. Spiritual maturity does not mean that we will never make wrong plans. In fact, spiritual maturity often means having the courage to admit we've made the wrong plans.

Beth Moore

#11. Her feelings of fear and helplessness had reached such a pitch that they were suddenly transformed into their opposites. Having overcome them, she felt corageous and self-confident enough to tackle any power on earth; more precisely, she had ceased to worry about herself.

Michael Ende

#12. Simply having the courage to say senseless things made me euphoric. I was free, with no need to seek or to give explanations for what I was doing. This freedom lifted me to the heavens - where greater love, one that forgives everything and never allows you to feel abandoned, once again enveloped me.

Paulo Coelho

#13. Having the courage to take the steps we always wanted to take is the only way of showing that we trust in God.

Paulo Coelho

#14. Having the courage to speak one's mind is as important as knowing when the time is right to do so.

Nana Awere Damoah

#15. Solitude is one of our great superpowers ... Solitude is the key to being able to make effective decisions and then having the courage of convictions to stand behind those decisions.

Susan Cain

#16. Freedom isn't about having permission to do whatever we want ... it's about having the courage to do whatever fills our life with meaning.

Bill Crawford

#17. It's about knowing who you are, what you stand for, and then having the courage to be yourself - in every situation rather than only when it's convenient. It's about being real, consistent, and congruent so who you are on the inside is reflected by the way you perform on the outside.

Robin S. Sharma

#18. One of the hardest questions I have been asked is 'How will you manage the army if you are having menstrual cramps?' I have also been asked if I will have the courage to face criminals. My answer is that courage is not a matter of gender.

Josefina Vazquez Mota

#19. Well for me, courage means having the courage to walk off the edge of what is known, with complete faith that you're not going to go crashing to the bottom. Stepping outside of your own self-perceived boundaries and limitations.

Brad Willis

#20. Being an actor is about having the courage to follow your instincts, and also having the discipline and dedication to sacrifice the things in your life that you need to sacrifice to get the best out of yourself artistically.

Matt Smith

#21. The art of chess is in knowing which is the most valuable piece in play, then having the courage to sacrifice it for the win.

Thomm Quackenbush

#22. Courage is the only Magic worth having.

Erica Jong

#23. Having the courage to say no when all your friends are saying yes is one of the most difficult things you'll ever have to do. Doing it, however, is one of the biggest charges you can ever make to your personal battery. I call this 'won't power.'

Sean Covey

#24. But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that's where it really started for us. In having the courage to take that decision. To take a gamble not just with our music but our lives.

Michael Hutchence

#25. 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.

Books

#26. Whenever it comes to doing anything. Remember the part about having confidence.

Auliq Ice

#27. Success rests with having the courage and endurance and, above all, the will to become the person you are, however peculiar that may be. Then you will be able to say, I found my hero and he is me.

George A. Sheehan

#28. Style is having the courage of one's choices and the courage to say no. It's good taste and culture.

Giorgio Armani

#29. Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.

Theodore Roosevelt

#30. I remember having friends in high school that did the theater department stuff, and I always wanted to try it but never had the guts to. I was the class clown but could never really build up the courage to try it. I took one acting class and really enjoyed it.

Robert Buckley

#31. 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

#32. For having the courage to tell the truth during the war when everybody else was telling lies

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#33. We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

Ernesto Che Guevara

#34. Fast food, fast money, shallow thinking, shallow interpretations. This is now what I deal with everyday. Art was meant to be about freedom, about having the courage to explore what it means to be human.

Emma Raveling

#35. I thought having a chronic illness would make my life detour in ways I didn't want to accept, but I've learnt that have a chronic illness made the only detours that are worth the growth.

Nikki Rowe

#36. Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it's having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome. Vulnerability is not weakness; it's our greatest measure of courage.

Brene Brown

#37. Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.

George Sheehan

#38. Success is not determined by the outcome. The outcome is the result of having already decided that you are successful to begin with.

T.F. Hodge

#39. Pure religion is having the courage to do what is right and let the consequence follow.

Neal A. Maxwell

#40. Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg. There were no people with percentages for him, cautioning him about this group or that group or what they found in exit polls a year earlier. When will we have the courage of Lincoln?

Robert Coles

#41. 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

#42. What is Moral Courage? It is the ability to distinguish right from wrong and having so distinguished it, be prepared to say so,irrespective of the views held by your superiors or subordinates and of consequences to yourself.

Sam Manekshaw

#43. Being a leader for me is about having the courage to speak the truth, and live the truth, despite attempts to silence our thoughts, feelings, and past experiences.

Zainab Salbi

#44. You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'

Maya Angelou

#45. To me, having the courage to tell your own story goes hand in hand with having the curiosity and humility to listen to others' stories.

Sarah Kay

#46. Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say ... but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that the impassable prose is a hallmark of intelligence.

Alain De Botton

#47. Are you too frightened to go any farther?" asked the silk-monkey, who found all this very easy, having four legs herself.
"I'm never afraid," answered Sniff. "But I think the view is better from here.

Tove Jansson

#48. Me? Oh, intellectually I believe in having a good heart, a chirpy penis, a lively intelligence, and the courage to say 'shit!' in front of a lady.

D.H. Lawrence

#49. I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.'

Ira Sachs

#50. It's about having the courage to do something, to take a risk, when it matters most.

Lindsay Cummings

#51. Recognizing happiness when it's lying at your feet, having the will and courage to reach down and take it in your arms
and to hold on to it
that's the heart's intelligence. Intelligence minus the heart is just logic, and that doesn't amount to much. - Arthur

Marc Levy

#52. If you are anxious about a business deal or worried about your job, you are seeing failure as a possibility. And having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means of realization of the end. It is a shocking truth we should never forget.

Eric Butterworth

#53. The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.

Pema Chodron

#54. Peace was not the absence of conflict; it was having the courage to face the conflict and make the right choices.

Michael D. Evans

#55. It is never about how good your voice is; it is only about feeling the urge to sing, and then having the courage to do it with the voice you are given.

Elizabeth Berg

#56. When you heed the calling of your heart, you are following your purpose. Having purpose in your life gives you the courage to do the things you are meant to do. When you are purpose driven, you have learned to listen to your intutition and never let no get in your way.

Rhonda Britten

#57. Having the courage to stand up and pursue your dreams will give you life's greatest reward and life's greatest adventure.

Oprah Winfrey

#58. You know what gives me the courage to keep on living? The courage to love myself a little? It's having a whole bunch of friends who really give a goddamn. When you share pain, there's less of it, and when you share joy, there's more of it.

Spider Robinson

#59. Without white South Africa realizing what it had done - and on the basis of that realization having the courage to ask for forgiveness - there can really be no significant movement.

Athol Fugard

#60. Rohan, if being a hero is having the courage to resist using power arbitrarily, then you are a hero, beloved.

Melanie Rawn

#61. learn was the difference between having a dream and cultivating the courage to live it out day after day." Mable

Kristy Cambron

#62. Patriotism is not 'my country right or wrong'; patriotism means loving the ideals for which America stands and having the courage to speak up when these ideals are distorted for personal or political gain. The American government was instituted to be the servant of the people, not our master.

Robert A. Heinlein

#63. I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.

J.D. Salinger

#64. It's not about having an absence of fear, it's about having dominance over it.

Steve Maraboli

#65. ...she had begun to learn that success was sometimes simply a matter of having the courage to proceed in the direction of one's dreams.

Karleen Koen

#66. The search for God means having the courage to set out on a risky path, it means following our restless hearts, ...

Pope Francis

#67. 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

#68. We do God more honor by believing what He has said about Himself and having the courage to come boldly to the throne of grace than by hiding in self-conscious humility among the trees of the garden.

A.W. Tozer

#69. In playing ball, and in life, a person occasionally gets the opportunity to do something great. When that time comes, only two things matter: being prepared to seize the moment and having the courage to take your best swing.

Hank Aaron

#70. It was amazing to think that she'd always had it wrong, imagining that they were the weak ones, the ones who took their chance. No. The weakest are those who stay put and call it sacrifice, call it not having a choice.

Sunjeev Sahota

#71. Having the courage to make decisions and take action. Never be afraid to fail. You have nothing to fear if you have prepared to the best of your ability.

John Wooden

#72. It's about risking everything. Putting your heart on the line, even when you don't know what's going to happen. It's risking having the person you love rip it out and stomp all over it in public.

Susan Mallery

#73. 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

#74. - very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions - ? Rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions

Friedrich Nietzsche

#75. Being genius does not necessarily mean knowing it all or having the highest academic qualification; but a persons ability to apply wisdom and common sense to common things in a distinctive manner and courageously, exhibiting the latent deft to the admiration of the masses

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#76. Integrity means having the courage to do what is right, and what is aligned with your values, no matter the situation.

Douglas Conant

#77. Healing and positive life change comes from having the courage and spiritual conviction to look squarely at life's impermanence.

Meredith L. Young-Sowers

#78. Even if you are having a nightmare day during which nothing will go right, never cease looking for the ball. In the end everything will come right, for football is a game that rewards those who show courage.

Duncan Edwards

#79. Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability.

Benjamin Disraeli

#80. If you feel positive, you have a sense of hope. If you have hope, you can have courage.

Kathrine Switzer

#81. Tamaki: Having the courage to be able to admit what you love ... enjoying what you love ... and being true to yourself ... Isn't that also what it means to be strong?

Bisco Hatori

#82. Fearlessness at twenty springs from not knowing challenges lie ahead. Fearlessness at fifty comes from having wrestled with life's challenges and learned from them.

Kathleen Turner

#83. Barbara, you have done it again! Sweet Salt Air is a fabulous story of friendship, betrayal, courage and love with family and friends. Having been raised in Maine, she writes 'to the T, in describing beautiful and simple lives on a Maine Island.

Barbara Delinsky

#84. There is a certain degree of satisfaction in having the courage to admit one's errors.

Dale Carnegie

#85. Dumb is just not knowing. 'Ditzy' is having the courage to ask!

Jessica Simpson

#86. If you take a hard look at the people in your life, you may be blown away by how many explorers and survivalists surround you. Everyday, I'm amazed by the number of people I meet, who have climbed Mt. Everest, time and time again ...
without ever having been to the Himalayas.

Jose N. Harris

#87. It doesn't take courage to drink too much and be wild or jump around. That doesn't take any kind of boldness, just riding a motorcycle or whatever the idea of being tough is. Tough is having four kids. Tough is committing to life and being disciplined.

Angelina Jolie

#88. Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.

Cornel West

#89. Traveling gives you some perspective of what the rest of the world is like. I think that having the courage to step out of the norm is the most important thing.

Meghan Markle

#90. A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#91. You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage - pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say "no" to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger "yes" burning inside. The enemy of the "best" is often the "good.

Stephen R. Covey

#92. Maturity is having the courage to use one's own intelligence!

Immanuel Kant

#93. Having the courage to stand up for yourself is like bringing swords to a stick fight.

Kyle Schmalenberg

#94. Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.

Adam Driver

#95. For millions, Roger Ebert will be remembered as a writer and television personality who brought a sense of passion and excellence to his craft. For me, he is a man who fused joy and courage as few others ever have. My life was enriched by having such a friend; it is poorer for losing such a friend.

Jeff Greenfield

#96. Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#97. Every man ultimately falls into the company with which he affiliates. And he is the strongest who draws men to himself, who creates the company; and this is through having a positive quality - courage and physical prowess.

Orison Swett Marden

#98. You will never get what you want if you believe that you are not worthy of having it. God doesn't create us to be defeated.

Shannon L. Alder

#99. Vulnerability is not about winning, and it's not about losing. It's about having the courage to show up and be seen.

Brene Brown

#100. One of the less dismaying aspects of race relations in the United States is that their improvement is not a matter of a few people having a great deal of courage. It is a matter of a great many people having just a little courage.

Margaret Halsey