Quotes About Taking Courage

#1. Courage isn't being a dragon. Neither is it behaving like a dragon. Nor is it taking up arms to fight and defeat dragons. Courage is being a lamb standing with poise among dragons.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#2. You can't gather much if you won't go on risk expedition. Leaders never fear the thorns; they'll still go in for the beautiful roses no matter the number of pricks they'll get.

Israelmore Ayivor

#3. While you, the leader, can teach many things, character is not taught easily to adults who arrive at your desk lacking it. Be cautious about taking on reclamation projects regardless of the talent they may possess. Have the courage to make character count among the qualities you seek in others.

John Wooden

#4. Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

G.K. Chesterton

#5. Empowerment is something that happens throughout your healing, as courage and success in facing your memories build your self-esteem. Some of the strengths you get from taking on your buried memories does not show up in your life until long after the resolution has been achieved.

Renee Fredrickson

#6. I want to stand on the foundation of ethics and morals when the world around me would assault that foundation with all of its collective might, and in the standing I want to stand on the truth that that foundation will stand long after everything that has assailed it has itself has ceased to stand.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#7. Courage is nothing more than taking one step more than you think you can.

Holly Lisle

#8. To die for a cause is easy, to live, to be steady day after day doing the small things, taking care of the details, knowing you will be forgotten by history and still choosing to do so, that is real courage

Anonymous

#9. Many people think passion is a fuzzy feeling that makes taking action effortless. In fact, it's the gritty courage and tenacity to forge onward ...

Martha Beck

#10. Those of us who read carried around with us like martyrs a secret knowledge, a secret joy, and a secret hope: There is a life worth living where history is still taking place; there are ideas worth dying for, and circumstances where courage is still prized.

Annie Dillard

#11. 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

#12. It is worth taking the leap for something you have always wanted to do because until you try you'll never know. Through the experiences I have had and the risks I have taken, I have gained courage and confidence. I didn't start with the courage and confidence. I started with the risk.

Laura Davies

#13. Ignore the negativity in your life. Right now I'm taking bullets for other people and sometimes in life that's where courage comes from.

Cady Groves

#14. great men take and overtake risk tactically

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#15. They had offered him comfort and shelter, even when he was afraid of taking them, and in accepting he had learned something new. It was as much of a gift to receive as it was to give, requiring as it did both courage and humility.

Rachel Joyce

#16. It is your life...OWN IT! Your life purpose empowers you and enables you to live life abundantly. Empowerment begins by taking responsibility for your life and being accountable for your actions. Empowerment is the courage to live passionately and purposefully each day

Thomas Narofsky

#17. It's still easier to take a blow from outside than it is to be disgusted with myself for not taking a stand. I don't know how people can live and not fight back but apparently millions do. They must hate themselves.

Rita Mae Brown

#18. Can we take it slow, Ethan Blackstone?"
"I'm taking that as a yes. And of course we can." I heard the soft brush of an exhale again. A pause as if he was gathering
his courage. "Brynne?"
"Yes?"
"I am smiling so wide right now."
"I am too, Ethan.

Raine Miller

#19. This feat I also had no idea how to accomplish, but ignorance had never stopped me from taking action before.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#20. That is what we say when we do not wish to play the weakling, we say Fine, even though we may be dying, and this is commonly known as taking one's courage in both hands

Jose Saramago

#21. I didn't say a word. He wouldn't be using oxygen. K2 is more dangerous than Everest.

Susan Oakey-Baker

#22. Courage isn't about knowing the path, it's about taking the first step.

Katie Davis

#23. Discouragement is a moral state, a failure of heart; you treat it by taking courage, not Prozac.

David Gelernter

#24. It took a lot of courage to take the high road, but I would rather be significant with six million people watching a show with meaning, than everyone watching a show with no meaning.

Oprah Winfrey

#25. Courage is all about taking action. Courage requires discipline, vitality, and guts to face those tasks in your profession that make you feel uncomfortable.

David Sandler

#26. 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

#27. The highest point of humility consists in not merely acknowledging one's abjection, but in taking pleasure therein, not from any want of breadth or courage, but to give the more glory to God's Divine Majesty, and to esteem one's neighbour more highly than one's self.

Saint Francis De Sales

#28. Risk is the unique path to success.

Adria J. Cimino

#29. The best thing to do is stare it in the face and move on. We have to face our fears and plow through. I think taking chances takes a lot more courage than staying stagnant and doing what's safe and comfortable.

Terri Clark

#30. 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

#31. Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you are taking the risk because you don't know the odds. It's a big difference.

Daniel Kahneman

#32. But he'd learned long ago that a life lived without risks pretty much wasn't worth living. Life rewarded courage, even when that first step was taken neck-deep in fear.

Tamera Alexander

#33. There is more courage and heroism in defying the human impulse, in taking the purposeful and painful steps to prepare for the unimaginable.

Malcolm Gladwell

#34. Do you think courage means being fearless? Or daring? Courage, real courage, is taking three steps when it terrifies you.

Catherine Anderson

#35. I feel sorry for the man who has never known the bracing thrill of taking a stand and sticking to it fearlessly. Moral courage has rewards that timidity can never imagine. Like a shot of adrenaline, it floods the spirit with vitality

Billy Graham

#36. Taking in another's criticism, even when it's offered out of love, requires courage.

Sharon Salzberg

#37. Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest thing in the world is making a decision.

Franz Grillparzer

#38. I can't see the end of the road, but here is the great part: Courage is not about knowing the path. It is about taking the first step.

Katie J. Davis

#39. 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

#40. Peter Lake had no illusions about mortality. He knew that it made everyone perfectly equal, and that the treasures of the earth were movement, courage, laughter, and love. The wealthy could not buy these things. On the contrary, they were for the taking.

Mark Helprin

#41. Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, knowing something is more important than fear and taking action in the face of fear.

Roy Bennett

#42. What I felt that night, and what I did, I no more expected to feel and do, than to be lifted in a trance to the seventh heaven. Cold, reluctant, apprehensive, I had accepted a part to please another: ere long, warming, becoming interested, taking courage, I acted to please myself.

Charlotte Bronte

#43. I am not without fear, but courage is taking action despite the fear. Knowing what you want, what you are meant to do, and proceeding despite any knots in your stomach or rocks stuck in your throat. It is walking boldly into the unknown with your chin held high ... even if it quivers.

Rachel Harris

#44. The Greek poets had praised virtue as taking several specific forms: wisdom; courage; moderation; justice; and piety.

Melissa Lane

#45. The future is taking shape now in our own beliefs and in the courage of our leaders. Ideas and leadership - not natural or social "forces" - are the prime movers in human affairs.

George Roche III

#46. It was the old New York way of taking life "without effusion of blood": the way of people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than "scenes," except the behaviour of those who gave rise to them.

Edith Wharton

#47. [She] knows that it's fear that keeps her love in check. but what if falling in love i a sign not of weakness but of courage? what if it isnt falling or crashing but taking a leap?

Julianna Baggott

#48. Courage wasn't a matter of taking the whole mountain in a single massive leap. Courage was taking it one step at a time, doing what was necessary now, preparing for the next step, and refusing to worry about whether some step in the future would be the one that would break him.

Timothy Zahn

#49. You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.

William J.H. Boetcker

#50. We say Fine, even though we may be dying, and this is commonly known as taking one's courage in both hands, a phenomenon that has only been observed in the human species.

Jose Saramago

#51. In the absence of a great dream pettiness prevails. Shred visions foster risk taking, courage and innovation. Keeping the end in mind creates the confidence to make decisions even in moments of crisis.

Peter Senge

#52. Do not be afraid of taking a big step-you cannot cross a chasm in two steps.

David Lloyd George

#53. the fallen of the baboon into the river is the risen of the joy of the crocodile. Though the crocodile becomes happy, it conceals its joy until it deploys all its necessary deft and strength to take captive of the Baboon

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#54. The ultimate risk is not taking a risk.

James Goldsmith

#55. There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions.

Jairam Ramesh

#56. In the shadow of death he produces life, and though the senses are terrified, faith taking all for the best, is full of courage and assurance.

Jean-Pierre De Caussade

#57. 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

#58. Our earlier lives aren't wrong, they are just pre-construction. Our lives are meant to unfold, to evolve, and that's good. The only wrong thing, perhaps, is permanently hesitating on the verge of courage, which would prevent this process from taking place.

Sue Monk Kidd

#59. Willingly taking a dive headfirst into the unknown takes some serious courage.

Colleen Hoover

#60. Whilst your memory is as sharp as the most reliable computer, it is always wiser to write things down. Pre-meditation helps the refining process, taking out the undesirable elements from a dream or vision, even mounting the courage to face and overcome challenges before they appear in reality.

Archibald Marwizi

#61. When taking risks you always require a special friend: courage.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#62. 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

#63. A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.

Ann Bancroft

#64. Courage, like fear, is a habit. The more you do it, the more you do it, and this habit-of stepping up, of taking action-more than anything else, will move you in a different direction.

Tony Robbins

#65. All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

Erma Bombeck

#66. Trying and getting hurt can't possibly be worse for you than being ... stuck.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#67. You have found a woman who is worthy of you, with courage and hope to spare, Matthaios.' 'I know,' Matthew said, taking my hand. 'Know this, too: you are equally worthy of her. Stop regretting your life. Start living it.

Deborah Harkness

#68. Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the theater lacks is that kind of courage.

Harold Prince

#69. If you want courage, kill fear and blindfold ignorance

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#70. Taking an inventory of mental assets and liabilities, you will discover that your greatest weakness is lack of self-confidence. This handicap can be surmounted - and timidity translated into courage - through the aid of the principle of autosuggestion.

Napoleon Hill

#71. An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.

Dorothy Day

#72. What counts in any man is the consistency and integrity of his behavior, and his courage in taking a stand, not his conformity to official dogma.

Joost A.M. Meerloo

#73. You will never realize your best destiny through the avoidance of fear.
Rather, you will realize it through the exercise of courage, which
means taking whatever action is most liberating to the soul, even when
you are afraid.

Martha Beck

#74. I think there's a growing courage among the younger generation of American writers. Because of the more superficial treatment of characters taking place in cinema, they have had to deal with that by digging deeper into who these people are.

Mohsin Hamid