Quotes About Courage

I believe that history is not made by cynics. It is made by realists who are not afraid to dream. Let us be these people.

I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.

Women are like tea bags.They do not know how strong they are until they get into hot water.

In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.

We should be respectful but we must also have the courage to stop harmful practices that impoverish girls, women and their communities.

Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them. -Carrie Bradshaw

Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.

You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.

I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.

With her courage and determination, Malala has shown what terrorists fear most: a girl with a book.

I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.

If anyone ever boos you off stage, that is simply applause from ghosts.

To awaken chivalry we must return to femininity. We must stop doing the masculine things and become the gentle, tender, dependent women we were designed to be.

Just trying to do something - just being there, showing up - is how we get braver. Self-esteem is about doing.

Somewhere we turn ourselves into victims instead of being the powerful women we really are meant to be.

I don't believe in weak women, I believe women in general are pretty powerful beings. I don't know anything else.

You don't have to play masculine to be a strong woman.

I just wanted to say things that women wanted to say, but were afraid to.

If you are going to ask your crush for their phone number, you are one of the small group of women I am so jealous of.

Right now being born a girl is to be born threatened.

Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.

Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.

Progress in every age results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done.

We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected.