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Quotes About Courage

They pulled off his turban, tore out his beard and necklaced him South Africa-style with a burning tyre while people stood around baying their encouragement.
~ Arundhati Roy
What we need are people who are prepared to be unpopular. Who are prepared to put themselves in danger. Who are prepared to tell the truth. Brave journalists can do that, and they have. Brave lawyers can do that, and they have. And artists—beautiful, brilliant, brave writers, poets, musicians, painters, and filmmakers can do that. That beauty is on our side. All of it.
~ Arundhati Roy
In battle, Musa told Tilo, enemies can't break your spirit, only friends can
~ Arundhati Roy
She died in her cage, the little bird These words she left for her captor Please take the spring harvest And shove it up your gilded arse
~ Arundhati Roy
There are women who make things better... simply by showing up. There are women who make things happen. There are women who make their way. There are women who make a difference. And women who make us smile. There are women of wit and wisdom who- through strength and courage- make it through. There are women who change the world everyday... Women like you.
~ Ashley Rice
Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.
~ Assata Shakur
You died. I cried. And kept on getting up. A little slower. And a lot more deadly.
~ Assata Shakur
i Believe In The Fire Of Love And The Sweat Of Truth
~ Assata Shakur
Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
~ Assata Shakur
Throughout amerika's history, people have been imprisoned because of their political beliefs and charged with criminal acts in order to justify that imprisonment. Those who have dared to speak out against the injustices in this country, both Black and white, have paid dearly for their courage, sometimes with their lives.
~ Assata Shakur
At least two kinds of courage are required in aging and sickness. The first is the courage to confront the reality of mortality- the courage to seek out the truth of what is to be feared and what is to be hoped. But even more daunting is the second kind of courage - the courage to act on the truth we find.
~ Atul Gawande
Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength. At least two kinds of courage are required in aging and sickness. The first is the courage to confront the reality of mortality—the courage to seek out the truth of what is to be feared and what is to be hoped. Such courage is difficult enough. We have many reasons to shrink from it. But even more daunting is the second kind of courage—the courage to act on the truth we find.
~ Atul Gawande
But even more daunting is the second kind of courage—the courage to act on the truth we find.
~ Atul Gawande
Hope is not a plan, but hope is our plan.
~ Atul Gawande
Courage, Laches responds, "is a certain endurance of the soul.
~ Atul Gawande
At least two kinds of courage are required in aging and sickness. The first is the courage to confront the reality of mortality—the courage to seek out the truth of what is to be feared and what is to be hoped.
~ Atul Gawande
Had they stayed just a few seconds longer, they would have plunged into the fire themselves.
~ Atul Gawande
The fire had been difficult, but not to a degree that had ever made him flee before.
~ Atul Gawande
I was willing to be rejected. That's what allows you to be a good salesperson.
~ Atul Gawande
The first is the courage to confront the reality of mortality—the
~ Atul Gawande
It may seem odd that such a person would place herself in front of a camera.
~ Atul Gawande
I AM LEERY of suggesting the idea that endings are controllable. No one ever really has control. Physics and biology and accident ultimately have their way in our lives. But the point is that we are not helpless either. Courage is the strength to recognize both realities.
~ Atul Gawande
Wisdom is prudent strength.
~ Atul Gawande
Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped.
~ Atul Gawande