Top 100 Takes Courage Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. Patience takes courage. It is not an ideal state of calm. In fact, when we practice patience we will see our agitation far more clearly.
Pema Chodron
#5. 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
#6. It takes courage and intelligence, you know, to do the stages of Yoga right, and to start with this Hatha Yoga ... It's just you and nothing but you, standing in one spot frozen like a statue with no place to go for help or excuse or scapegoat except inward.
Bikram Choudhury
#7. For any marginalized group to change the story that society tells about them takes courage and perseverance.
Sharon Salzberg
#8. It takes courage to stand up for yourself. I stand in honor, and no longer in fear of speaking out.
Catherine Jane Fisher
#9. It takes courage to love someone because it's a wonderful adventure.
Debasish Mridha
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.
Oscar Wilde
#15. Being first to ask for help in a friendship takes courage and humility.
Afton Rorvik
#16. 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
#17. To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.
Madonna
#18. 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
#19. It does not take courage to kill. It takes courage to live.
Renee Ahdieh
#20. It takes courage to recognize the real as opposed to the convenient.
Judi Dench
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have an idea, you become a minority of one.
E. Paul Torrance
#24. 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
#25. Launching a turnaround takes courage. I cannot measure that and so it is not going to be included in my analysis, but behind the moments of change there are always a few people within these societies who have decided to try to make a difference.
Paul Collier
#26. The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.
Carson Daly
#27. Curiosity takes courage. The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself. Pay Attention. Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#28. I have too much respect for people to try to control them. But they are estranged from love, afraid to reach out and touch one another. We're afraid to appear sentimental or speak in platitudes because people will say, 'What a jerk!' It takes courage in our culture to be a lover.
Leo Buscaglia
#29. When you let it get personal, the cost becomes personal too. You're opening your own heart here. You sure you want to do that?"
"I'd do it for free. For the bullshit you are, and have always been."
"Disbelief is easy, Kane. It's faith that takes courage, and character.
Michael Marshall Smith
#30. One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.
Emile Chartier
#31. 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
#32. What takes courage: no make - up. No make - up at all. Like The Matrix. I did the matrix and they had a rule all the characters in The Matrix, except the leads, of course, wore absolutely nothing on their face.
Ian McLeod
#33. It takes courage to face the sunshine.
K.A. Hosein
#34. 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
#36. Achievement requires more than a vision - it takes courage, resolve and tenacity. All you have got to do is plant that seed in your mind, care for it, work steadily toward your goal, and it will become a reality
Earl Nightingale
#37. Beauty takes courage. Courage itself takes courage.
Carol Shields
#38. When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots. They can't get away with their abuse. They can't get away with subjection. They can't get away with subjugation. They can't get away with exploitation. They can't get away with domination. It takes courage for folk to stand up.
Cornel West
#39. It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
Erica Jong
#40. It's not the traveling that takes courage Tally. I've done much longer trips on my own. It's leaving home.
Scott Westerfeld
#41. 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
#42. It takes courage to believe the best is yet to come!
Robin Roberts
#43. I think people are afraid of either failing or succeeding. It takes courage to feel the fear and feel the risk.
John Assaraf
#44. It takes courage to push things forward.
Mo Mowlam
#46. To change the world takes time; to change yourself takes courage.
R.S. Lowel
#47. Anybody can wine and dine, but it takes courage to truly Shine.-RVM
R.v.m.
#48. 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
#50. 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
#51. Seems to me you must always have been afraid to be young. It takes courage, I can tell you that,
L.M. Montgomery
#52. 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
#53. It takes courage to die for a cause, but also to live for one.
Azar Nafisi
#54. One of the most courageous things we do is change. If everyone says you're wonderful every time you wear a red dress, and you change to yellow, that takes courage.
Barbara De Angelis
#55. For a long time, it was like I was part of some special forces unit: I'd land, meet everyone, five minutes later I'd have to do some amazing work, then - boom! - I'm out again. You know, playing supporting parts takes courage.
John C. Reilly
#56. It takes courage to be the author of your life.
Nicholas Lore
#57. Writing a novel takes creativity. Publishing it takes courage
M.L. Kilian
#58. 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
#59. Discouragement is like a scorpion in your shoe; it takes courage to toss it out so you can move on.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#60. It takes courage to stand for what you believe in.
James Jones
#61. Leaving home's a cinch. It's the staying, once you've found it, that takes courage.
Catherine Watson
#62. But what I realize, here, now, is that it's not actually making the choice that takes courage. It's facing it afterward. Owning up to it, whether it's good or bad.
Jessi Kirby
#63. Humans are cowards in the face of happiness. It takes courage to hold on to happiness.
Novala Takemoto
#64. 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
#65. It takes courage to live your truth. But what you get in return is self-respect.
Auliq Ice
#66. 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
#67. It takes courage, strength, and conviction to love someone deeply, persistently, and endlessly.
Debasish Mridha
#68. 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
#69. It takes more than just awareness for us to change. It takes courage and humility and the willingness to occasionally feel like fools and laugh at ourselves.
Bud Harris
#70. It takes courage not only to make decisions, but to live with those decisions afterward
Mike Krzyzewski
#72. 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
#73. Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.
Tori Amos
#74. 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
#75. Poetry takes courage because you have to face things and you try to articulate how you feel.
Edward Hirsch
#76. It is easy to hate and blame but it takes courage and love to appreciate.
Debasish Mridha
#77. 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
#78. 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
#80. It takes courage to speak up against complacency and injustice while others remain silent. But that's what leadership is.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
#81. Anyone can stay the same. It takes courage to change
John Assaraf
#82. 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
#83. It takes courage to step out of the line marked 'security' into the line marked 'risk.'
Robert G. Allen
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. It takes courage to live in the midst of hate. And it requires strength to keep that hatred from eating your soul.
Mari Serebrov
#88. 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
#89. Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray that the benefactor has no earthly clue who you are.
Lionel Shriver
#90. 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
#91. And then I realized that my sister was trying to LIVE a romance novel.
Man, that takes courage and imagination. Well, it also took some degree of mental illness, too, but I was suddenly happy for her.
And a little scared. Well, a lot scared.
Sherman Alexie
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. It is in the expectations of happiness that much of happiness itself is found. And it takes courage to expect happiness.
Earl Nightingale
#96. 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
#97. I knew people want most what they pretend to hate, that it takes courage to say what you really want.
Darcey Steinke
#98. Writing and prayer are both a form of love, and love takes courage.
Pat Schneider
#99. 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
#100. The simple truth is that being a creative artist takes courage; it's not a job for the faint of heart. It takes courage each and every time you put a book or poem or painting before the public, because it is, in fact, enormously revealing.
Terri Windling
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