Quotes About Courage

Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?

We need more men with the guts, with the courage, with the strength, with the moral integrity to break our complicit silence and challenge each other and stand with women and not against them.

Only he who is man enough will release the woman in woman.

Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

I figure if a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and be one.

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Thank God for such women, who make no apologies for their oceanic depth and riptides of emotion.

When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

There's nothing wrong with being afraid. It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have faith.

Some women are lost in the fire. Some women are built from it.

I don't need easy, I just need possible.

It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.

Had I been a man I might have explored the Poles or climbed Mount Everest, but as it was my spirit found outlet in the air. . . .

People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.

In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.

You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.

Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

The frontiers of the kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.

I refused to take no for an answer.

It took a while to grow the confidence to say, 'This is who I am, take it or leave it.'