“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”

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

Courage is grace under pressure.

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

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.

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

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

Nothing is lost if one has the courage to proclaim that all is lost and we must begin again.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.