Courage Quotes

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

Speak, for your lips are free; speak, your tongue is still your own.

We have on this earth that which makes life worth living.

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

I raise up my voice — not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard.

When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it.

Give me blood, and I shall give you freedom.

They may kill me, but they cannot kill my ideas.

At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

I don't want to be thought of as the 'girl who was shot by the Taliban' but the 'girl who fought for education'.

One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.

Revolution is an inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is an imperishable birthright of all.

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage.

He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

My art originates from hallucinations only I can see.

O snail, climb Mount Fuji — but slowly, slowly!

Those who seek death shall live. Those who seek life shall die.

There is no Plan B, because there is no Planet B.

The road to democracy may be winding and is like a river taking many curves, but eventually the river will reach the ocean.

Nothing is more precious than independence and freedom.

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

Give me a thousand old men and I will move Mount Semeru from its place. Give me ten young men and I will shake the world.

A nation that does not believe in its own strength as a nation cannot stand as an independent nation.

There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.

I die without seeing the dawn brighten over my native land.

It is not power that corrupts but fear.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

Please use your liberty to promote ours.

Even from my sickbed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel that something is going wrong, I will get up.

Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.

I am a writer first and a woman after.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

One of the criticisms I've faced over the years is that I'm not aggressive enough or assertive enough, or maybe somehow, because I'm empathetic, it means I'm weak. I totally rebel against that.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for.

Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me.

It is nothing to die; it is frightful not to live.

The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart.

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.

Where they burn books, they will also burn people.

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

I have never tried that before, so I think I should definitely be able to do that.

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller.

The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

The day will come when history will speak.

You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Courage is grace under pressure.

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

The best way out is always through.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

Ain't I a woman?

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.