Courage Quotes

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them.

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.

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.

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.

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.

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

I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say — I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.

Fortune favors the bold.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Failure is impossible.

Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.

In overthrowing me, you have done no more than cut down the trunk of the tree of the black liberty in Saint-Domingue; it will spring back from the roots, for they are numerous and deep.

Don't give up, that's what life is: to continue the journey, to follow your dreams, to unknot time, to move the rubble and uncover the sky.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.

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

It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die.

From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.

Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

I would rather die standing than live on my knees.

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?

The true warrior dares to face life's bleakness squarely, and to look straight at its flowing blood.

Africa will write its own history, and in both north and south it will be a history of glory and dignity.

Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.

Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own understanding.

The greatest hero is the one who serves his country and his people.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Since ancient times, who has not died? Let my loyal heart shine in the annals of history.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

Failure is a word unknown to me.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

Freedom is not given, it is taken.

Bombs and pistols do not make a revolution. The sword of revolution is sharpened on the whetting-stone of ideas.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Not defeated by the rain, not defeated by the wind.

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Kill me, O my faithful friends, for in my death is my life.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

I still have twelve battleships.

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

The most beautiful sea hasn't been crossed yet.

Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

I will plant my hands in the garden; I will grow green, I know, I know, I know.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

I hope nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.

My religion is to live and die without regret.

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.

I would rather have a government run like hell by Filipinos than a government run like heaven by Americans.

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person — 'Always do what you are afraid to do.'

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions that differ from the prejudices of their social environment.

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.

Our lack of confidence is not the result of difficulty. The difficulty comes from our lack of confidence.

We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.

Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage.

Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say, but I can say they are certainly no worse.

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.

The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open?

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never — in nothing, great or small, large or petty.

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you'll be criticized anyway.

We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it.

Born a wildlife warrior, die a wildlife warrior.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?

Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

Never give in — never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty.

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you'll be criticized anyway.

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.

Dare to be naive.

We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can be free! We can learn to fly!

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

It is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.

You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

Sweet are the uses of adversity.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

He who fears death will never do anything worthy of a living man.

We make war that we may live in peace.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

Strength is life, weakness is death.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

Life begins where fear ends.

I can't go on. I'll go on.

When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight.