Quotes About Courage

We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.

Now is the time to understand more, so we fear less.

I was born, to handle situations the way I do. I've always been the type who can be thrown in the fire and make it out. Any time I'm given an opportunity, I feel I'm ready.

I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.

A winner is that person who gets up one more time than she is knocked down.

I heard a voice that told me I'm essential. How all my fears are limiting my potential. Said it's time to step into the light and use every bit of power i have inside.

Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.

Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!

Life turns on a dime. have no idea what tomorrow will bring... sure life would be a lot easier if we knew what was going to happen. You've got to live by faith one day at a time.

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

I'm looking to be shot any time I step out of my car... If I die, it will be in a good cause. I've been fighting for America just as much as the soldiers in Vietnam.

Every time I have had a problem, I have confronted it with the ax of art.

I grew up like a neglected weed, ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. Then I was not happy or contented: every time I saw a white man I was afraid of being carried away.

The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead!

It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime, what better place than here? What better time than now?

The sixties were a time when ordinary people could do extraordinary things . . . !

It's a big world. Don't get trapped by tiny dreams and feeble problems. Time for big prayers and bold faith.

He who is silent and bows his head dies every time he does so. He who speaks aloud and walks with his head held high dies only once.

There comes a time in your life when you focus solely on what you believe is right, regardless of what everybody else is doing.

Break the Shell": "Child, it's time to break the shell Life's gonna hurt but it's meant to be felt You cannot touch the sky from inside yourself You cannot fly until you break the shell.

The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible.

Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.