Quotes About Courage

As she spoke, her voice never wavered; it was the voice of someone who has forced a larger meaning out of tragedy. Or

Sometimes you can't worry about hurt. Sometimes you worry only about getting where you have to go." We

the words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. Yet every so often, the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms...

And I say to you today that we need more folks in this country who are a good crazy….You can't tell what will happen when you get folks with some good crazy…going to the polls to vote!

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Sometimes you can't worry about hurt. Sometimes you worry only about getting where you have to go.

Let us endure these storms.

The trick is not caring that it hurts.

Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real. They are serious and they are many. They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this, America — they will be met.

When people at dinner parties ask me how I can possibly operate in the current political environment, with all the negative campaigning and personal attacks, I may mention Nelson Mandela, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, or some guy in a Chinese or Egyptian prison somewhere. In truth, being called names is not such a bad deal.

Still, I strongly resisted the idea of offering up my past in a book, a past that left me feeling exposed, even slightly ashamed.

Don't be thick, all right? I'm not just talking about one time. Look, I ask Monica out, she says no. I say okay … your shit's not so hot anyway.

Glory and tragedy, courage and stupidity—one set of truths didn't negate the other. For war was contradiction, as was the history of America.

For us, they packed up their few worldly possessions and traveled across oceans in search of a new life.

I gotta say, boss," he told me, "that was some real gangster shit back there.

But know this America: we will meet them

I suffered rejections and insults often enough to stop fearing them. In other words, I grew up—and got my sense of humor back.

Getting things done meant subjecting yourself to criticism, and the alternative—playing it safe, avoiding controversy, following the polls—was not only a recipe for mediocrity but a betrayal of the hopes of those citizens who'd put you in office.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

I hadn't grown up in Compton, or Watts. I had nothing to escape from except my own inner doubt. I

Sometimes you were just screwed, and the best you could do was have a stiff drink—and light up a cigarette.

You gave them hope." "They need more than hope," I said.

if Abbas had been a younger man, more intent on making his mark than protecting himself from criticism.

We did not come here to fear the future. We came here to shape it.