To Have Courage Quotes

#1. Belief and faith have nothing to do with each other. Beliefs are the manifestation of fear whereas faith comes from courage.

Debasish Mridha

#2. I want to find the candidates who understand the principles of American exceptionalism and have the character, the courage, and the confidence to actually lead the greatest nation in the world.

Jim DeMint

#3. I love revolutionaries who have the courage to stand up against the status quo. They're always misunderstood, but they're the ones who are standing up for human rights.

Richard Hatch

#4. You have to be bold because there will be folks who will say, "You can't" or "You shouldn't" or "Why?" There is a certain boldness to saying, "Well, I really don't want to be a high-powered corporate lawyer. I'm really passionate about painting.

Chris Gardner

#5. The confidence we have in God and in ourselves, gives us the courage to dare great things.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. I learned long ago that in order to heal my wounds, I must have the courage to face up with them.

Paulo Coelho

#7. There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.

Geraldine Brooks

#8. We make progress in society only if we stop cursing and complaining about its shortcomings and have the courage to do something about them.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#9. I have been fascinated by men and women of courage. People who took brave decisions in the service of great causes especially when more comfortable and far less dangerous alternatives were open to them

Gordon Brown

#10. 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

#11. Nobody can have your psychedelic experience for you; you just have to screw your courage up and raise the cup to your lips or smoke the pipe or whatever it is and face what's in there.

Dennis McKenna

#12. Women have their own braveries, their own mighty courageousness that is of woman, and not to be compared with the courage shown by man.

Richard Llewellyn

#13. Paul persuaded me to join the band. I would never have had the courage otherwise. It was fun at the beginning. We were playing just for fun, with Paul's group.

Linda McCartney

#14. When you have endure the worse situations, you build the courage and confidence to cope with any other situations.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. Our imagination and hope become a reality if we have the courage to believe and take action to realize them.

Debasish Mridha

#16. What is the real relation between happiness and goodness? It is only within a few generations that men have found courage to say that there is none.

William Graham Sumner

#17. If thinking men would have the courage to think for themselves, and to speak what they think, it would be found they do not differ in religious opinions as much as is supposed.

Thomas Jefferson

#18. Barring a miracle, the family that has existed since antiquity will likely crumble, presaging the fall of Western civilization itself. This is a time for concerted prayer, divine wisdom and greater courage than we have ever been called upon to exercise,

James Dobson

#19. People think rape victims forget how to laugh. I have not forgotten how to laugh. It is beyond the capability of this person to make me forget how to laugh.
~ Subhangi Tyagi

Kirtida Gautam

#20. The first step to getting what you want is to have the courage to get rid of what you don't.

Zig Ziglar

#21. You've got to follow your passion. You've got to figure out what it is you love
who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.

Oprah Winfrey

#22. 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

#23. Adventure is something out of the usual pattern, a point at which you cannot avoid confronting the unknown, so that you have to dig inside yourself to find the courage and resources to deal with what may lie ahead, and to succeed.

Bertrand Piccard

#24. Instead of begging to be picked by others, you have the choice to pick yourself and build your brand

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#25. You have to be courageous to not spend money, ... and we don't have many people who have that courage..

Tom Coburn

#26. I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory! Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#27. The face of sin today often wears the mask of tolerance. Do not be deceived; behind that facade is heartache, unhappiness and pain.. YOU be the one to make a stand for right, even if you stand alone. Have the moral courage to be a light for others to follow.

Thomas S. Monson

#28. To those of you with your years of service still ahead, the challenge is yours. Stop doubting yourselves. Have the courage to make up your minds and hold your decisions. Refuse to be BOUGHT for a nickel, or a million dollars, or a job!

Mary McLeod Bethune

#29. 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

#30. Christopher Columbus said we cannot discover new oceans unless we have the courage to lose sight of the shoreline.

Jack Kruse

#31. With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice.

Dan Lipinski

#32. That was the trouble with pride, and courage, and all those clench-jawed virtues bards love to harp on. The more you have, the more likely you are to end up bottom in a pile of dead men.

Joe Abercrombie

#33. To anyone out there especially young people feeling like they don't fit in and will never be accepted, please know this, great things can happen when you have the courage to be yourself.

Michael Sam

#34. May you have the courage to choose love over hate.

Leta B.

#35. My prayer for you is that you come to understand and have the courage to answer Jesus' call to you with the simple word 'yes'.

Mother Teresa

#36. When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn't have this foundation.

Radhanath Swami

#37. You have control over doing your respective duty, but no control or claim over the result. Fear of failure, from being emotionally attached to the fruit of work, is the greatest impediment to success because it robs efficiency by constantly disturbing the equanimity of mind.

Ramananda Prasad

#38. The true test of courage is to be afraid and to go ahead and do it anyway - to be scared, is to have your knees knocking, but to walk on in there anyway.

Oprah Winfrey

#39. Have the courage to read this book, for in the first place it will make you ashamed, and shame, as Marx said, is a revolutionary sentiment.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#40. Oh, to be laughed at when I have the courage to speak my heart. I don't want to live in a world like this."
-from "Diary of My Sixteenth Year

Yasunari Kawabata

#41. I have every confidence in the ultimate success of our joint cause; but success in modern war requires something more than courage and a willingness to die: it requires careful preparation.

Douglas MacArthur

#42. I have this one little life to live with, it's not the plan I had in mind but I can accept its the calling of my soul. The irony in gaining freedom through the heartbreak of stillness.

Nikki Rowe

#43. But the makers of legend have seldom rested content to regard the world's great heroes as mere human beings who broke past the horizons that limited their fellows and returned such boons as any man with equal faith and courage might have found.

Joseph Campbell

#44. I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I've heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal. I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.

Dorothea Lange

#45. My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#46. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us.

Henry Miller

#47. You know nothing of courage." said Baba Ayub. "For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose." You have your life to lose, said the div. "You already took that from me.

Khaled Hosseini

#48. They forget that we, too, have earned the right to live! So I say if we are going to die, my friend, let us die trying, not sitting.

Velma Wallis

#49. 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

#50. How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Benjamin Franklin

#51. How much more money do we have to waste, how many more families have to be destroyed, how many more people have to be killed before you summon the courage to tell the truth to the American people?

Don Winslow

#52. You create the possibility of reaching your desired destinations if you have the courage to begin your journey.

Debasish Mridha

#53. I prayed to God from the bottom of my heart that this day would never come, but it has and we have to face it with courage and faith.

Piers Paul Read

#54. Sometimes we know what we have to do, but we lack the courage to do it. Let us learn from Mary how to make decisions, trusting in the Lord.

Pope Francis

#55. You never wish on shooting stars. You wish on the ones that have the courage to shine where they are.

Andrea Gibson

#56. Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
- Steve Jobs

Wanda Krause

#57. 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

#58. To be original you must listen to the voice of your heart rather than the clamor of the world - and have the courage to teach publicly what you have learned. The source of all genius is sincerity; men would be wiser if they were more moral.

Ludwig Borne

#59. Statements are made so plainly and positively that men have hardly the moral courage to pause upon them and find that they are without support.

G.K. Chesterton

#60. As soon as you awaken to the power you have, you begin to flex the muscles of your courage. Then you can dream bravely: letting go of your limiting beliefs and pushing past your fears. You can start to come up with a truly original dream that germinates in your soul and bears fruit in your life.

Alberto Villoldo

#61. Have the courage to do what you're not ready to do.

Richie Norton

#62. The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty, and truth."
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Albert Einstein

#63. Some people say they have 20 years experience, when in reality, they have 1 year's experience repeated 20 times. (Stephen M R Covey to Richie Norton when Norton asked if he was too young to train older executives for Covey.)

Richie Norton

#64. If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.

Cynthia Ozick

#65. My message is believe in yourself. Have courage in your capacity. Listen to your inner voice. And then the critical component of all this is, do the work.

Brad Willis

#66. You must first be willing to fail - and you must have the courage to go for it anyway.

Michael Bloomberg

#67. There are no coincidences. Only doors you didn't have the courage to walk through. only blind spots you weren't brave enough to see. Only tones you refused to admit you could hear.

Sara Gran

#68. it is your life and you have to live your life as you want but you must have courage to pay by your self for the life which you are living , if someone other is paying by their tears and grief for your enjoyment ,then you are living a shameful life.

Mohammed Zaki Ansari

#69. You have to have courage to look back and be honest about your own drama.

Estelle

#70. Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.

Antonin Scalia

#71. We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.

Madeleine L'Engle

#72. He went into a dark tower of truth for you. Do you have the courage to give him your own name?

Patricia A. McKillip

#73. For the sake of all the others who are like you, but less strong and less gifted perhaps, many of them, it's up to you to have the courage to make good.

Radclyffe Hall

#74. Pause and remember - Change will happen the moment you have the courage to change.

Jennifer Young

#75. Incorrect assumptions lie at the root of every failure. Have the courage to test your assumptions.

Brian Tracy

#76. I plead with you to have the courage to refrain from judging and criticizing those around you, as well as the courage to make certain that everyone is included and feels loved and valued.

Thomas S. Monson

#77. I have great confidence in you to do what you think best. State your opinion and always act with courage.

Catherine McAuley

#78. In politics, one can learn some things from cycling, such as how to have character and courage. Sometimes in politics there isn't enough of those things.

Guy Verhofstadt

#79. I like the fact that I can go away and lose myself so I don't have to live in the world of courage that everyone else does. I like creating, it's what I do, and acting allows me to stretch all those different muscles in all kinds of ways. That's pretty cool.

Roddy Piper

#80. We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage, freedom and light!

Hafez

#81. The golden rule would be to write a great, authentic song that is well produced and it will find its home. The audience can feel whether or not the artist is being genuine in their music. It's up to the artist to have the courage to reveal their truth through their songs.

Wendy Starland

#82. But old age, to begin with, has something in common with death. Some face it with indifference, not because they have more courage than others, but because they have less imagination.

Marcel Proust

#83. I was once afraid of people saying, "Who does she think she is?" Now I have the courage to stand and say, "This is who I am.

Oprah Winfrey

#84. She made an appearance to offer me courage, and I worried about her appearance. Shame. Such a worrywart I am. I miss miracles blooming before my eyes: I concentrate on a fading star and miss the constellation. I overlook dazzling thunderstorms worrying whether I have laundry hanging.

Rabih Alameddine

#85. Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.

Theodore Sturgeon

#86. When a people lose the courage to resist encroachment on their rights, then they can't be saved by an outside force. Our belief is that people always have the kind of government they want and that individuals must bear the risks of freedom, even to the extent of giving their lives.

A.E. Van Vogt

#87. It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business. John was rejected by studios, he borrowed money and did movies with his own money. You're either courageous or not. You have to find a way.

Ben Gazzara

#88. I'm a good listener. I think it's the one characteristic that's most important. I've always been that way. Not that I take all the advice, but you've got to listen to it and have the courage to make your own decision. And just go for it.

Tom Cruise

#89. Not long ago, two children in Great Park made a quest: a boy who sought a way to talk through the thing he dreaded most and a girl who feared she had lost the One she loved the most. And together they discovered the Kingdom within and without, which all do, who have the courage to make the quest.

David R. Mains

#90. Everybody's opinion is equally valid, and I feel like everybody should have an opportunity to speak out, and everyone should have the courage to speak out.

Michael Franti

#91. I expect that someday you'll have to deal with a little girl just as defiant as you were. But you'll be glad she defies you, in spite of your frustrations, because you'll know she has the courage to take on the world if she ever has to.

Catherine Jones Payne

#92. You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

Nancy D. Solomon

#93. I believe tnat life is very generous with us once we have shown the will to take a positive course. It is ery ready to keep on opening doors for us. It is just that sometimes we lose our willpower and courage adn prefer to stay on the familiar, safe side of each door.

Mary Balogh

#94. Did you mean what you said? You will pursue this?'
Brisbane sipped at his tea. 'I suppose. I have a few other matters that I must bring to conclusion, but nothing that cannot wait. And I have no other clients questioning either my integrity or my courage at present.

Deanna Raybourn

#95. In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan's anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called 'contemporary philosophers'.

Alain Badiou

#96. We should be respectful but we must also have the courage to stop harmful practices that impoverish girls, women and their communities.

Graca Machel

#97. What is a good man if not one who does not believe in himself to the exclusion of others? ... He was asked to bear what cannot be borne--what should not be borne. I hope never to be so tested, for I have it on the best authority that I will not bear it.

Norman Lock

#98. I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.

William Faulkner

#99. We need fathers to step up, to realize that their job does not end at conception; that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child but the courage to raise one.

Barack Obama

#100. You must have the courage to face what happened today and to live with it in your heart and to use the memory of it to grow and be strong.

Allan Frewin Jones