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Quotes About Defiance

I'm not the one with the problem its the world who seems to have a problem with me
~ Unknown
All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.
~ John Milton
When something happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
~ Rosalind Russell
It takes a tremen­dous act of courage to admit to your­self that you are not defec­tive in any way what­so­ever.
~ Cheri Huber
The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
~ Rosa Parks
my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.
~ Jane Austen
True courage is to stand against evil, even when we stand alone.
~ Unknown
And only weaklings...who lack courage and the power to feel they're right when the whole world says they're wrong, ever lose.
~ Zelda Fitzgerald
From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you. To what indifference people may come, to what profound conviction of having lost the right track forever.
~ Franz Kafka
But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.
~ Ray Stannard Baker
Desperate courage makes One a majority.
~ Andrew Jackson
Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Courage is the standing army of the soul which keeps it from conquest, pillage, and slavery.
~ Henry Van Dyke
Courage refuses frontiers!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Tyranny is tyranny, no matter what its form; the free man will resist it if his courage serves.
~ Learned Hand
He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.
~ Michel de Montaigne
No one provokes me with impunity (nemo me impune lacessit)
~ Unknown
Normality is what weak people call living, I call it death
~ Greg Plitt
Woe and death to all who resist my will!
~ Wilhelm II
A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
I hold death in my pouch, I cannot die.
~ Fela Kuti
Art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.
~ Jacques Lipchitz
Give me victory or give me death!
~ Unknown