Quotes About Courage

Try to breathe, he said, and for the first time the only thought in my head after an instruction like that wasn't Fuck you. I breathed.

Freedom has its dangers as well as its joys. And the sooner we learn to get up after a fall, the better off we'll be.

I'm a woman in search on an adventure

Life is like that I thought, as I turned the corner to my building. Freedom has its danger as well as its joys. And the sooner we learn to get up after a fall, the better off will be.

The writer ended with a line from Eudora Welty: "All serious daring starts from within.

I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.

Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.

it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.

Resistance is the secret of joy!

You got to fight them, Celie, she say. I can't do it for you. You got to fight them for yourself. I don't say nothing. I think bout Nettie, dead. She fight, she run away. What good it do? I don't fight, I stay where I'm told. But I'm alive.

Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.

Women have to summon courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

Hope is a woman who has lost her fear.

subservience of any kind is death to the spirit.

Whoever he is, he is not worth all this. And I will never unclench my teeth long enough to tell him so.

A little love, a little buckshot, that's how I'd say handle yourself.

When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning myself To light up the darkness Around me.

Choose someone to love who wouldn't even hear of it.

You know Shug will fight, he say. Just like Sofia. She bound to live her life and be herself no matter what.

Lord, this is some thick shit Black women must get through.

They were women then My mama's generation Husky of voice stout of Step With fists as well as Hands How they battered down Doors And ironed Starched white Shirts How they led Armies Headragged generals Across mined Fields Booby-trapped Ditches To discover books Desks A place for us How they knew what we MUST know Without knowing a page Of it Themselves.

Sofia take up the clothes, straighten them out, stand by the ironing board with her hand on the iron. Sofia the kind of woman no matter what she have in her hand it look like a weapon.

though we have all encountered our share of grief and troubles, we can still hold the line of beauty, form, and beat — no small accomplishment in a world as challenging as this one. Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is the proof.

the most common way people give up there power is by thinking they don't have any