Top 100 The Courage Quotes
#1. Better to regret actions you have taken than to regret not having had the courage to take them in the first place.
Holly Chamberlin
#2. The general commanding congratulates his troops on their brilliant and successful occupation of Roanoke Island. The courage and steadiness they have shown under fire is what he expected from them, and he accepts it as a token of future victory.
Ambrose Burnside
#3. Once a Loser never means you cannot muster the courage to be a Winner again,Win is just a manifestation of your bitter experiences for better Win today
Abhishek Sundarraman
#4. The courage it took to get out of bed each
morning
to face the same things
over and over
was
enormous.
Charles Bukowski
#5. To one who waits, all things reveal themselves so long as you have the courage not to deny in the darkness what you have seen in the light.
Coventry Patmore
#6. Because democratic institutions do not renew themselves as effortlessly as flowering trees, they demand the ceaseless tinkering of people who possess both the courage and the honesty to admit their mistakes and accept responsibility for even the most inglorious acts.
Bill Vaughan
#7. We are hunters all. We are, all of us, monstrumologists. And Pellinore Warthrop was the best of us, for he had found the courage to turn and face the most terrifying monster of all.
Rick Yancey
#8. ...You bring out the truth in me, Callista, and make me whole. I need you to set me free and give me the courage to be as strong as you are. I love you...
Catherine LaRoche
#9. How many of us have had our hearts broken for whatever reason yet find the courage to continue to reach out for love. Emotional vulnerability is true strength to me.
Michelle J. Howard
#10. Love alone allows man to forget himself ... it alone can still redeem even the darkest hours of the past since it alone finds the courage to believe in the mercy of the holy God.
Karl Rahner
#11. Dreams do come true, but not without the help of others, a good education, a strong work ethic, and the courage to lean in.
Ursula Burns
#12. If I have to go into that good night, I'm goin' gentle; the hell with whoever said not to. That sucker's dead, man, so what did he know? Not even the courage of his convictions.
George Alec Effinger
#13. Great accountability is nothing more and nothing less than having the courage to demand that the people who work for you use their strengths in a responsible way. Learning
Jonathan Raymond
#14. Before I begin talking about the threats we face, the vulnerabilities that we have, and frankly the courage of the men and women in uniform that stand in harm's way on behalf of a very grateful Nation, let me first honor the sacrifices of September 11.
Zach Wamp
#15. Imagine settling for a life you can have because you don't have the courage to go after the life you really want.
Jill Davis
#16. As a leader, if you follow your heart, you will have the courage to take on any risk because your heart will lead you to the solution and avoid the risk.
Angeline Kobe Chan
#17. The gold of a lowland lord is as worthless as a half man's promises' Gunthor said.
'Half a man I may be' Tyrion said. 'Yet I have the courage to face my enemies. What do the Stone Crows do, but hide behind rocks and shiver with fear as the knights of the Vale ride by?
George R R Martin
#18. You can have the courage to climb the mountain, swim the lakes, go on a raft to the other side of the Atlantic or Pacific. That any fool can do, but the courage to be on your own, to stand on your two solid feet, is something which cannot be given by somebody.
U.G. Krishnamurti
#19. One morning you will awake to find that you are the person you dreamed of doing what you wanted to do simply because you had the courage to believe in your potential and to hold on to your dream.
Donna Levin
#20. Anybody who has the courage to raise his eyes and look sanely at the awful human condition ... must realize finally that tiny periods of temporary release from intolerable suffering is the most that any individual has the right to expect.
Flann O'Brien
#21. As long as the opposition believes the world will stand with Ukraine's democrat reformers, they will have the leverage and the courage to establish a legitimate republic under the leadership of Viktor Yushchenko.
Bob Schaffer
#22. This is in the end the only kind of courage that is required of us: the courage to face the strangest, most unusual, most inexplicable experiences that can meet us.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#23. What sets lion chasers apart isn't the outcome. It's the courage to chase God-sized dreams.
Mark Batterson
#24. We need more men with the guts, with the courage, with the strength, with the moral integrity to break our complicit silence and challenge each other and stand with women and not against them.
Jackson Katz
#25. Even in the hardest circumstances, dreams can give you the courage to live, and I hope I can share that message with children in need.
Kim Yuna
#26. My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
Erica Jong
#27. Shame is the demon that keeps many of us trapped in our pain; healing comes when we gain the courage to confront our demon(s).
J'son M. Lee
#28. A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace.
Suze Orman
#29. A voice in me said, You have to rise to the occasion or the best in you will die. We always have that voice; we just have to make a choice to listen to it. We all have it; that's God's given light. It's just whether you have the courage to step into your destiny.
Lily Yeh
#30. No people in the world other than the English would have had the courage, in the midst of war, to tell the people such unvarnished truth.
Anton Walbrook
#31. Ah! Those strange people who have the courage to be unhappy! Are they unhappy, by the way?
Alice James
#32. The world lies in the hands of those that have the courage to dream and who take the risk of living out their dreams - each according to his or her own talent.
Paulo Coelho
#33. But what can women do in times of war? They help, they cheer, they inspire, and if their cause is lost they must accept death or worse. Few women have the courage for self-destruction. "To the victor belong the spoils," and women have ever been the spoils of war.
Zane Grey
#34. We all have wings, but it is up to each one of us to have the courage to fly
Miranda Kerr
#35. Ash's jaw flexed at the mention of Bjorn. "Forgiveness is the better part of valor."
"I always thought it was 'discretion.'"
Ash shook his head. "Discretion is easy. It's finding the courage to forgive yourself and others that is hard.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#36. Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.
Robin Hobb
#38. The memory came faint and cold of the story I might have told, a story in the likeness of my life, I mean without the courage to end or the strength to go on.
Samuel Beckett
#39. Homo homini lupus [man is wolf to man]. Who in the face of all his experience of life and of history, will have the courage to dispute this assertion?
Sigmund Freud
#40. There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them.
Abu Bakar Bashir
#41. Music was always a big part of my family. Only a few of us had the talent - or the courage - to walk out on a stage.
Patty Loveless
#42. Find the courage to ask yourself the questions your afraid to hear the answer to? Why ... Because it's the only way you'll know which direction your truth lays.
Nikki Rowe
#43. As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are.
Antony Sher
#44. He [the golfer] must have the courage to keep trying in the face of ill luck or disappointment, and timidity to appreciate and appraise the dangers of each stroke, and to curb the desire to take chances beyond reasonable hope of success.
Bobby Jones
#45. My work is to be honest. My work is to try to think clearly, then have the courage to make sure that what I say is the truth.
Maya Angelou
#46. To pluck up the courage and open your heart, and embrace someone else's heart is difficult.
Min
#47. It is almost certain that we will fail. But how will future history judge the German people, if not even a handful of men had the courage to put an end to that criminal?
Henning Von Tresckow
#48. Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions.
Ian Smith
#49. I admire the courage and wisdom of Socrates in everything he did, said
and did not say.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#50. The measure of a civilization is in the courage, not of its soldiers, but of its bystanders.
Jack McDevitt
#51. Compassion is often mistaken for weakness, when the fact is, there is very little that is more powerful than the courage it takes to give it.
Kristen Ashley
#52. And, like a lightning strike, there is his example. His mother before him. The lesson that she passed down for him to pass on to his children - the courage to face every breath with love and gratitude.
Lisa Genova
#53. Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?
Anita Diamant
#54. You're going to come to a lot of intersections in your life, Natalie, roads and otherwise, and you can't always just turn around. You have to summon the courage to go forward.
Priscilla Cummings
#55. You will walk a long road," said Morozko. "If you have not the courage to meet it, better - far better - for you to die quiet in the snow. Perhaps I meant you a kindness.
Katherine Arden
#56. Perhaps it's not theology we're missing, but rather theological integrity. Many have the knowledge but lack the courage to admit the discrepancy between what we know and how we live.
Francis Chan
#57. Rules and systems were created by people. And that awareness gives us the courage to contemplate how we can change them.
Adam M. Grant
#58. I think there's a great strength in having the courage and also having the support to do what you want to do when you're an artist in any way, shape or form.
Dave Gahan
#59. Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.
Paul Tillich
#60. When you find your path, you must ignore fear. You need to have the courage to risk mistakes. But once you are on that road ... run, run, run, and don't stop til you've reached its end.
Jose N. Harris
#61. courage is not something we can manufacture by our own efforts. But when we surrender wholeheartedly to God, he gives us the courage to face whatever comes. He gives us the words to speak when we are called to stand and voice our faith.
Francine Rivers
#63. Do not be afraid to be holy! Have the courage and humility to present yourselves to the world determined to be holy, since full, true freedom is born from holiness.
Pope John Paul II
#64. He had found the courage once in his life to seize a chance at love from a person who knew how to give it. Lena prayed on these two moons that she would find that same courage.
Ann Brashares
#66. Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.
Ellen Glasgow
#67. It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.
Les Brown
#68. There's a lie that all drivers tell themselves. Death is something that happens to other people, and that's how you find the courage to get in the car in the first place. The closer you are to death the more alive you feel. But more powerful than fear itself, is the will to win.
James Hunt
#69. Have the courage to be exactly who you are without apology. Admit your mistakes without beating yourself up. Release all shame! Release all guilt! You cannot live if you are hiding behind what was. Focus on what is, right now, and that is you!
Iyanla Vanzant
#70. Mother, where did you find the courage?' ... ' Courage, Johnny? I don't know. We just do blindly the thing we think is right ... What was it that moved me: love? Duty? Ambition? All three. Now I have my reward in full measure.' -p. Abigail to Johnny, Those Who Love, p. 564
Irving Stone
#71. I think we spend so much of our lives trying to pretend that we know what's going to happen next. In fact we don't. To recognize that we don't know even what will happen this afternoon and yet having the courage to move forward - that's one meaning of faith.
Sharon Salzberg
#72. To honor the self is to be willing to think independently, to live by our own mind, and to have the courage of our own perceptions.
Nathaniel Branden
#73. People talk about the courage of cancer patients, and I do not deny that courage. I had been poked and stabbed and poisoned for years, and still I trod on. But make no mistake: In that moment, I would have been very, very happy to die.
John Green
#74. What makes a man is not the ability to have a child but having the courage to raise one.
Barack Obama
#75. Don't accept the post or stay unless you have an understanding with the President that you're free to tell him what you think "with the bark off" and you have the courage to do it.
Donald Rumsfeld
#76. We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.
Barbara De Angelis
#77. All I've done is give you a book," she said. "You have to have the courage to learn what's inside it.
Homer Hickam
#78. It might seem counterintuitive, but bringing conflicts to light is the charismatic thing to do. Have the courage to call out when there is tension beneath the surface of an interaction. Let people know when they transgress boundaries, even when you want their favor.
Charlie Houpert
#79. Daring greatly means the courage to be vulnerable. It means to show up and be seen. To ask for what you need. To talk about how you're feeling. To have the hard conversations.
Brene Brown
#80. Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be challenging because I had never done this type of dance before. I always wanted to and I happened to have the courage to go out there and give it my best shot.
Evander Holyfield
#81. To be young means to be original, to have remained nearer to the sources of life: it means to be able to stand up and shake off the fetters of an outlived civilization, to dare
where others lack the courage
to plunge again into the elemental.
Thomas Mann
#82. Our courage comes from the courage of others.
Simon Sinek
#83. I've got the courage to apply our conservative principles. I can't do it alone. With your help, with God's grace, we can save the idea of America before it's too late.
Bobby Jindal
#84. You have to have the courage to face the unexpected. This is the difference between people who do things and people who don't dare, who don't dare to live.
Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki
#85. The elderly have weathered enough squalls to know that this one, too, shall pass. They own the courage to be original; they've learned to hold their own values above the conventional wisdom.
Sarah Ferguson
#86. Lord, give me the wisdom to know what's right and the courage to do what's right-even when it's hard.
Andy Stanley
#88. The only book that is worth writing is the one we don't have the courage or strength to write. The book that hurts us (we who are writing), that makes us tremble, redden, bleed
Helene Cixous
#89. Condemnation by category is the lowest form of hatred, for it is cold-hearted and abstract, lacking even the courage of a personal hatred,
Wendell Berry
#90. The need to connect with one another intimately is what makes and keeps us human. The challenge throughout life is to find the courage to reach out to potential partners when our primary relationship ends and to recharge our tried-and-true unions when their sizzle starts to fizzle.
Joyce Brothers
#91. I believe we have a deficit of moral courage in the United States Congress. We have many learned individuals who know what is right but have not the courage to stand against the moral corruption that is now attempting to undermine our republic.
Tom A. Coburn
#92. Leadership is not only having a vision, but also having the courage, the discipline, and the resources to get you there.
George Washington
#93. Some people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that's you, pray for God to give you the courage to get rid of things you don't really need or things He wants you to give away. This will help keep your surroundings organized and clutter-free.
Joyce Meyer
#94. You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you are that person, but until you can see this clearly, you must pretend and invent.
Paulo Coelho
#95. Age only slows down those who never had the courage to walk at their own pace.
Paulo Coelho
#96. So take the time to think. Discover your real reason for being here and then have the courage to act on it.
Robin S. Sharma
#97. To be what I term a 'quality' human being one has to be transparently real and have the courage to be what he is.
Bruce Lee
#98. I didn't need anything else. Just myself and the courage to leave. That was the hard part.
Pepper Winters
#99. Nothing is more contagious than genuine love and genuine care. Nothing is more exhilarating than authentic awe and wonder. Nothing is more exciting than to witness people having the courage to fight for their highest vision.
Michael Lerner
#100. If there is any truth in the world, it lies when I'm with you, and if I find the courage to speak my truth to you one day, remind me to light a candle in thanksgiving at every altar in Rome.
Andre Aciman
