Quotes About Courage

The world belongs to those who don't give up..

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

I had been walking one afternoon in Scotland and thought: Why don't I just keep going ? There was, I said, a magic in leaving a line of footprints stretching across Asia.

Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.

I hope to die at my post: in the streets or in prison.

Sonjuschka, Liebste, seien Sie trotz alledem ruhig und heiter. So ist das Leben, und so muß man es nehmen, tapfer, unverzagt und lächelnd – trotz alledem." (Letters to Sonja Liebknecht)

De menselijke psyche herbergt, net als Thalatta - de eeuwige zee - alle mogelijkheden in zich: een dodelijke luwte en de razende storm, de ergste lafheid en het wildste heroïsme. De massa is altijd wat zij in overeenstemming met de tijd en de situatie moet zijn, en zij staat altijd gereed de sprong te wagen en iets heel anders te worden dan zij schijnt.

My dear, it is very nice here, every day two or three persons are stabbed by soldiers in the city; there are daily arrests, but apart from these it is pretty gay..

was that I was a person with dignity and self-respect, and I should not set my sights lower than anybody else just because I was black.

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... and other people would be also free.

she stood up by sitting down. I'm only standing here because of her.

I am leaving this legacy to all of you ... to bring peace, justice, equality, love and a fulfillment of what our lives should be. Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die-- the dream of freedom and peace.

I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.

I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.

Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.

Something of Rosa

It was just a matter of survival?like getting off the road?so we could exist form day to day.

I had decided that I would not go anywhere with a piece of paper in my hand asking white folks for any favors. I had made that decision myself, as an individual.

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear. Knowing what must be done does away with fear.

Never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear.

Most of the members of the Montgomery NAACP were black. White people had to have a lot of courage to join, because they would be ostracized by the white community. It was still very dangerous for anyone, black or white, to try to help black people. We got more help from northern whites.

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.