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It Takes Courage Quotes

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

Perhaps it takes courage to raise children.
- John Steinbeck

it's easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone
- Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
- Charlie Chaplin

Do you think that Hemingway knew he was a writer at twenty years old? No, he did not. Or Fitzgerald, or Wolfe. This is a difficult concept to grasp. Hemingway didn't know he was Ernest Hemingway when he was a young man. Faulkner didn't know he was William Faulkner. But they had to take the first step. They had to call themselves writers. That is the first revolutionary act a writer has to make. It takes courage. But it's necessary
- Pat Conroy

It takes courage to create,' he said. 'People are afraid of embarrassing themselves by not being good enough.'
Or maybe even by showing who they really are.
- Claire Cook

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- E E Cummings

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

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe it.
- C S Lewis

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

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

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

It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
- James A Michener

It takes courage to die for a cause, but also to live for one.
- Azar Nafisi

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

Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.
- Jenny Shipley

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