Sometimes It Takes Courage Quotes

#1. Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

Oscar Wilde

#2. Sometimes it takes courage to leave.

Ann Rinaldi

#3. Sometimes it takes courage - maybe all the courage you've got - to just live life.

Douglas Preston

#4. Sometimes it takes more courage to be the passenger than to be the driver.

E.L. Konigsburg

#5. Maybe the job of the artist is to see through all of this strangeness to what really is, and that takes a lot of courage and a strong faith in the validity of the artistic vision even if there is not a conscious faith in God.

Madeleine L'Engle

#6. 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

#7. When fear no longer takes hold, the possibilities are endless.

Tom Althouse

#8. 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

#9. Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself

Charlie Chaplin

#10. When asked what it takes to succeed in the acting profession, Bette Davis would answer, "the courage to be hated."

Frank Langella

#11. It's easy to stand back, but to move forward and take a chance, that takes a little more guts, a little more courage.

Venus Williams

#12. Art should take what is complex and render it simply. It takes a lot of skill, human understanding, stamina, courage, energy, and heart to do that.

Anna Deavere Smith

#13. It takes great courage and determination, to keep looking for light in all the darkness of life.

Menna Van Praag

#14. Death does not concern me. He who takes his first step uses perhaps his last shoes. (Halmalo)

Victor Hugo

#15. Creativity takes courage.

Henri Matisse

#16. Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex ... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

E.F. Schumacher

#17. It takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.

David Foster Wallace

#18. If we have no idea what we believe in, we'll go along with anything. Truth takes courage. Courage to stand up for what we believe in. Not necessarily in a confrontational way, but in a gentle yet firm way. Like an oak tree, able to sway gently in the wind, but strongly rooted to the ground.

A.C. Ping

#19. It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.

Stephen Leacock

#20. I realized that an artist seeking to tell the truth in her art takes great courage. I recognize the courage required to bring children together from Israeli and Palestinian communities to find commonality in music as a very powerful and effective beginning towards Peace.

Yoko Ono

#21. Sometimes it takes more courage to know when to retreat than to keep fighting.

Richelle Mead

#22. Sometimes it takes more courage to get up and run than to stay. You either just do it or you don't. I got so scared the first day in combat I just decided to go along with it.

Audie Murphy

#23. Truth telling is an investment we must make in relationships - whether personal or professional. It takes a lot of time and thought, and sometimes, courage. However, there is probably not another investment of time that pays a greater dividend when done well.

Dee Ann Turner

#24. But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.

Albert Camus

#25. Sometimes it takes a lot of courage to be who you are.

Joan Bauer

#26. It is a pity that being who you truly are requires so much courage. But it does. It takes enormous courage at times. Being who you are, whoever that is, sometimes cannot even be articulated at first, not even to yourself

Anonymous

#27. When in doubt, be simple. Your life purpose should be an easy target to conceive sometimes all it takes is a simple act of courage to get you there.

Omar Al-Attas

#28. Letting go takes a lot of courage sometimes. But once you let go, happiness comes very quickly. You won't have to go around search for it.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#29. Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment.

Marisha Pessl

#30. Makes sense to me. Sometimes starting over is exactly what a person needs. And I think it's admirable. A lot of people don't have the courage it takes to do something like that.

Nicholas Sparks

#31. Sometimes, it takes just a moment of insanity to decide the course of our whole life.

Bhaskaryya Deka

#32. Emotional self-defense ... Those who care so much, maybe too much, know that it takes wisdom and courage to sometimes say, "no" to others.

Steve Maraboli

#33. Sometimes it takes more courage to ask for help than to act alone.

Ken Petti

#34. Sometimes all it takes is a little watering everyday and a sunny day to follow, that's how weeds become flowers and new dawns rise - why would it be any less then for a human life?

Nikki Rowe

#35. It takes courage to violate expectations, but sometimes the reward is a new level of success.

Donald Maass

#36. In our life sometimes we have to make painful choices. And it takes a bit of courage to make up our mind for it involves an element of renunciation, something hard to accept in a world steeped in pleasure and comfort.

Fr. Henry Bocala

#37. To understand one's world, one must sometimes turn away from it! To serve better, one must briefly hold it at a distance. Where can the necessary solitude be found, the long breathing space in which mind gathers its strength and takes stock of its courage.

Albert Camus

#38. It takes great courage to write great books. Find your courage and find your voice.

Kristen Lamb

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. He knew then why his voice had abandoned him. Because it takes courage to talk to people.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe it.

C.S. Lewis

#46. In order to free ourselves from our assumptions about love, we must ask ourselves what long-held, often buried assumptions are and then face them, which takes courage, humility, and kindness.

Sharon Salzberg

#47. Authenticity inspire respect because it takes courage to own who you really are.

Arlene Dickinson

#48. When you forgive, some deeper, divine generosity takes you over ... When you cannot forgive, you are a prisoner of the hurt done to you.

John O'Donohue

#49. Living takes courage. So does dying.

Juliet Blackwell

#50. Writing a song doesn't heal things. Even if the song comes up with a solution, it's still only a theory. Going out and living my lyrics is a whole other deal. That takes courage.

Alanis Morissette

#51. 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

#52. It takes courage to stay young, to make your enthusiasms work for you. Don't let anyone drag you down.

Ken Adam

#53. I don't know what takes more courage: surviving a lifelong endurance test because you once made a promise or breaking free, disrupting all your world.

Anne Tyler

#54. 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

#55. 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

#56. Being a successful trader also takes courage: the courage to try, the courage to fail, the courage to succeed, and the courage to keep on going when the going gets tough.

Michael Marcus

#57. The single characteristic that most makes a difference in the success of an article or nonfiction book is the author's courage in revealing normally unspoken things about himself or his society. It takes guts to be a writer

Sol Stein

#58. It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.

Zoe Saldana

#59. To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.

Stephen Baker

#60. It takes great courage and personal strength to hold on to our center during times of great hurt. It takes wisdom to understand that our reactiveness only fans the flames of false drama.

Marianne Williamson

#61. it takes courage to look life in the eye and say yes to the messy glory

Deborah Wiles

#62. When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that.

Ricky Williams

#63. It's fun talking to you ... like walking on the edge of a precipice. At first one's nervous but then courage takes over from somewhere.

Ivan Turgenev

#64. There is no weakness in crying. If we do not sorrow over what hurts us, how do we ever go past it? I have shed many a tear myself, Barbara Devane, over what life has brought me. Compassion can come from great pain, if you allow it. But compassion takes courage. Bitterness is easier.

Karleen Koen

#65. Courage is a greater virtue than love. At best, it takes courage to love.

Paul Tillich

#66. It takes great courage to break with one's past history and stand alone.

Marion Woodman

#67. Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.

Jenny Shipley

#68. A total commitment gives you the extra ounce of courage that it takes to win.

Arthur L. Williams Jr.

#69. I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.

Martha Stewart

#70. Giving up also takes courage.

Joanne Crisner Alcayaga

#71. 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

#72. 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