I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have a new idea, you are in a minority of one.”
“It takes courage to be honest and to work, while others play, cheat, sponge like parasites or are idle. There is value in the work that you choose to do, and you are an innately valuable person.”
Source: Guide to Free Thinking: Stories & Life Lessons
“It takes courage to be honest. You can only lie when you are afraid of the outcome.”
“It takes courage to be the author of your life.”
Source: The Pathfinder: How to Choose Or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success
“It takes courage to be yourself.”
“It takes courage to be yourself, but courage only exists when you fear. Once you are yourself, there is no more fear, no need for courage.”
Source: Shadow Life: Aerospace, Love, and Secrets
“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.”
“It takes courage to begin something, but it can take even more to end it.”
“It takes courage to believe the best is yet to come!”
“It takes courage to care for others, because people who care run the risk of being hurt. It's not easy to let your guard down, open your heart, react with sympathy or compassion or indignation or enthusiasm when usually it's much easier-and sometimes much safer-not to get involved. People who take the risk make a tremendous discovery: The more things you care about, and the more intensely you care, the more alive you are.”
“It takes courage to change.”
“It takes courage to change your life. It takes strength to keep going when you're ready to quit. And there is beauty to be discovered from realizing you overcame what you thought you could not. Some things cannot be explained solely by words, rather they are felt in your heart and woven into your very being.”
“It takes courage to conquer any circumstance.”
“It takes courage to cry; faking a smile is easy.”
“It takes courage to cry out pushing aside the veils of silence. It takes courage to allow the buried emotions to be released from the tightness and it takes even a greater courage to own up to the stifled cries. It takes a powerful person to walk into the vulnerability and discover the triumph of acknowledgement over denial...”
“It takes courage to die for a cause, but also to live for one.”
Source: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
“It takes courage to do aid work but it takes bravery to put your thoughts and experiences out in front of the world.”
Source: Chasing Misery: an anthology of essays by women in humanitarian responses
“It takes courage to draw stars in someone else's darkness.”
“It takes courage to dream big and then to allow nothing to prevent you from realizing that dream.”
Source: Catch Them Being Good: Everything You Need to Know to Successfully Coach Girls
“It takes courage to dream, to face our futures and the limiting forces within us. It takes courage to be determined that, as we slow down physically, we are going to grow even more psychologically and spiritually. Courage, the philosopher Aristotle taught us, is the most important of all the virtues, because without it we can’t practice any of the others. Courage is the nearest star that can guide our growth. Maya Angelou said we must be courageous about facing and exploring our personal histories. We must find the courage to care and to create internally, as well as externally, and as she said, we need the courage “to create ourselves daily as Christians, as Jews, as Muslims, as thinking, caring, laughing, loving human beings.”
“It takes courage to forgive love and allow yourself to embrace it again, its like discovering wings you thought you've lost”
“It takes courage to gather children from whatever they’re doing and kneel together as a family. It takes courage to turn off the television and the computer and to guide your family through the pages of the scriptures every day. It takes courage to turn down other invitations on Monday night so that you can reserve that evening for your family. It takes courage and willpower to avoid over-scheduling so that your family can be home for dinner.”
“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.”
“It takes courage to grieve, to honor the pain we carry. We can grieve in tears or in meditative silence, in prayer or in song. In touching the pain of recent and long-held griefs, we come face to face with our genuine human vulnerability, with helplessness and hopelessness. These are the storm clouds of the heart.”
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
“It takes courage to have a conscience when you seem to see others getting something tangible out of not bothering to struggle with the morality of a situation. It gets frustrating and demoralizing. This is precisely where character comes in. All throughout history special people have felt compelled to do what they objectively saw as right and good - even in the face of humiliation or rejection or expulsion or torture or death. That is because they believed that certain ideas were more important than individual well-being.”
“It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.”
Source: Sayonara: A Novel
“It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.”
“It takes courage to let down your armor, to welcome people to see you as you are. Sometimes I feel the same as you: I can’t risk having people behold me as I truly am. But there’s also a small voice in the back of my mind, a voice that tells me, “You will miss so much by being so guarded.”
Source: Divine Rivals
“It takes courage to let go of the past and all the mechanisms you have put in place, in order to ease your pain, regret and fear through avoiding responsibility for it.”
“It takes courage to let go of the past, but the ability to forget it is where true freedom is found.”
Source: Twenty + One - 21 Short Stories - Series II
“It takes courage to listen to your inner knowing … But once you hear that knowing, making a decision becomes fairly easy.”
Source: Source: The Inner Path of Knowledge Creation
“It takes courage to live, Terri. To really live. To follow your dreams, to love someone, to face each day.”
Source: Tall, Dark & Hungry
“It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe it.”
“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.”
“It takes courage to live your truth. But what you get in return is self-respect.”
“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.”
“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.”
Source: My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962
“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.”
Source: My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962
“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.”
“It takes courage to pray. It takes courage to be vulnerable. It takes courage to bend the knee.”
Source: Soul Fuel: Daily Devotions to Survive the Adventure of Life
“It takes courage to push things forward.”
“It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test your 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 blossom.”
“It takes courage to put down Shame and to set yourself free! You are worthy of love and connection. You are good enough and deserving of all the beautiful things in life.”
“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.”
Source: First Things First
“It takes courage to recognize the real as opposed to the convenient.”
“It takes courage to reinvent joys, to reinvent opportunities, to reinvent dreams, to reinvent connections, to reinvent hopes that you have set aside.”
“It takes courage to say goodbye. To stare at a thing lost and know it is gone forever. Some tears are iron forged.”
Source: Kinslayer
“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.”
“It takes courage to seek God, and courage to wait for His reply.”
Source: Killing Lions: A Guide Through the Trials Young Men Face