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Quotes About Courage

I don't have any feeling of accomplishment about anything unless there's a lot of risk to it.
~ Mario Andretti
Well as giraffes say, you don't get no leaves unless you stick your neck out.
~ Sid Waddell
Conformation ... but not much else. Breeding, but too small a heart. You saw it everywhere - in men, in horses, and in women.
~ Beryl Markham
It's sort of easy to make a challenge. It's very hard to put the full fate of your government behind the challenge and make it happen. That's real leadership.
~ Jody Williams
The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.
~ Malala Yousafzai
Don't yell at people. Stand up for what's right. Put yourself in the other persons place. Respect women. Don't take no for an answer. Laugh at yourself. Don't believe what you are told. Fall in love.
~ Greg Proops
Flying is the best possible thing for women.
~ Raymonde de Laroche
I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow.
~ Marissa Mayer
The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.
~ P. D. James
You have only one life to live, so live it without worrying about what others may think.
~ Jeanne Phillips
I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.
~ Helen Reddy
Courage, then, for the end draws near! A few more years of persistent, faithful work and the women of the United States will be recognized as the legal equals of men.
~ Mary Livermore
They will kill me but they will not kill my voice, because it will be the voice of all Afghan women. You can cut the flower, but you cannot stop the coming of spring.
~ Malalai Joya
Women are not children. We are not fragile little birds who can't cope with jokes, works of art, or controversial speakers.
~ Christina Hoff Sommers
I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
~ Emily Bronte
Women were afraid and they would never even imagine running a marathon in 1967.
~ Kathrine Switzer
The leader of the deed was a woman. -Dux femina facti
~ Virgil
Only Spartan women give birth to real men.
~ Gorgo, Queen of Sparta
Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Woman must not accept; she must challenge.
~ Margaret Sanger
One thing I always think about in making a market, and it again is something I have learned from Sam [Palmisano] as well, he always says, "Be first and be lonely."
~ Ginni Rometty
I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.
~ Nancy Wake
There are women who fly their falcons at any game, little birds and all.
~ George MacDonald
We hear the word Warrior used to describe women and men who show up, give their very best, and refuse to quit until the goal is reached.
~ Richard Machowicz