Quotes About Courage

We all have a sphere of influence. Each of us needs to find our own sources of courage so that we can begin to speak. There are many problems to address, and we cannot avoid them indefinitely. We cannot continue to be silent. We must begin to speak, knowing that words alone are insufficient. But I have seen that meaningful dialogue can lead to effective action. Change is possible.

Despair is an act of resignation I am not willing to make.

Carry on, please. Women don't usually take a skillet to his head and I'm anxious to witness it,

Careful, young woman. Smart-mouthed females are prized here.

Although the law may never reflect it, we are not less in any way, and I refuse to believe that I am simply because others do.

Beverly Jenkins

Women can't advance if they pick up their skirts and run every time a man growls." Dix

Jim Beckwourth,

William Leidesdorff,

Beverly Jenkins

Because the world needs sons and daughters with the courage of their fathers, and you are a courageous man.

Frances Ellen Watkins.

Courage is fear on its knees.

You can recognize a pioneer by the arrows in his back.

There is a growing strength in women but it's in the forehead, not the forearm.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

One thing that I tell people is ... if you're going to do anything new or innovative, you have to be willing to be misunderstood. If you cannot afford to be misunderstood, then for goodness' sake, don't do anything new or innovative.

Seeing Your great effulgent and various-colored form touching the sky; Your mouth wide open and large shining eyes; I am frightened and find neither peace nor courage, O Krishna.

Meditation is just a courage to be silent and alone. Slowly slowly, you start feeling a new quality to yourself, a new aliveness, a new beauty, a new intelligence—which is not borrowed from anybody, which is growing within you. It has roots in your existence.

Meditation requires courage. It requires the basic integrity, sincerity, respect towards your own being. At least don't deceive yourself.

As drops of bitter medicine, though minute, may have a salutary force, so words, though few and painful, uttered seasonably, may rouse the prostrate energies of those who meet misfortune with despondency.

Success is like a lovely woman, wooed by many men, but folded in the arms of him alone who, free from over-zeal, firmly persists and calmly perseveres.

Cowards shrink from toil and peril, Vulgar souls attempt and fail; Men of mettle, nothing daunted, Persevere till they prevail.

The attribute most noble of the hand Is readiness in giving; of the head, Bending before a teacher; of the mouth, Veracious speaking; of a victor?s arms, Undaunted valour; of the inner heart, Pureness the most unsullied; of the ears, Delight in hearing and receiving truth?These are adornments of high-minded men, Better than all the majesty of Empire.