Quotes About Courage

I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956, with some of my brothers and sisters and first cousins - I was only 16 years old - we went down to the public library trying to check out some books, and we were told by the librarian that the library was for whites only and not for colors. It was a public library.

The life of General Alex Dumas is so extraordinary on so many levels that it's easy to forget the most extraordinary fact about it: that it was led by a black man, in a world of whites, at the end of the eighteenth century.

There are a few blacks who have the courage to speak honestly about immorality within the black culture, and whites should work with them to help unite the races with truth.

Whites have to overcome the fear of being called 'racist.'

A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.

A man who has made no enemies is probably not a very good man.

Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

If not me, who? And if not now, when?

Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.

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

They can conquer who believe they can.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Remember who you are. Remember to be strong and don't care about what people say.

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

I like a man who grins when he fights.

What I am very, very moved and struck by is that so many people in the world are often living a life that they hadn't planned for themselves. And they wake up one day and say, 'Hang on. Who am I? Is this really me? Is this what I really wanted?' And also, 'Can I change it? Have I got the courage to change it?'

I was conveniently bisexual for a long time, and then I went, 'Come on, who am I kidding?' And I have to say, it was the single biggest step I took toward emotional well-being, to stop feeling like I had to hide who I am.