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Quotes About Courage

All women are strong. My mother survived Auschwitz, and fear wasn't an option when we were growing up. If we were afraid of the dark, we were put into the closet until we weren't.
~ Diane von Furstenberg
Running a boat isn't that hard. Just takes doing. Most or all women I ever knew were discouraged from running boats, but it was too late with me.
~ Diane Wilson
Of course Overlord did not fail. How could it? With some many fine young men and women from all corners of the earth all determined to do their best to free a world gone half mad.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
I mean, how many men would have gone on to the floor of the House as Carolyn Maloney did and wear a burkha to show the fight of Afghan women.
~ Eleanor Smeal
I think it's so wrong to play the victim. There's too many brave women out there that just won't even tolerate it, you know?
~ Elisha Cuthbert
I'm interested in helping women become courageous in being exactly who they are. Because the only way to change anything is to do it from your genuine self.
~ Elizabeth Lesser
People want real. And there are a lot of women out there doing that.
~ Elle King
I give it up to women who have the power to keep their spirit alive under very difficult circumstances.
~ Emily Saliers
I write novels about ordinary women who face seemingly insurmountable odds, but through courage and determination find their heart's desire.
~ Francis Ray
It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The courage of a great many men, and the virtue of a great many women, are the effect of vanity, shame, and especially a suitabletemperament.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.
~ Frank Crowninshield
Sarah Palin is an heir to the women's movement. She has not been constrained by gender. At no point in her life has she thought, 'I can't do that because I'm a woman.'
~ Gail Collins
The women are the strong ones, truly.
~ George R. R. Martin
There have been women in the past far more daring than we would need to be now, who ventured all and gained a little, but survived after all.
~ Germaine Greer
Women, we tend to become whole people by venturing outside of the home, learning to aspire, to achieve, to deal with conflict - all these qualities that are wrongly called masculine.
~ Gloria Steinem
Women have so much power that even hearing the word power frightens them.
~ Harriet Rubin
Can you imagine telling a woman she can't vote!? The women I hang out with would be going home with parts of your anatomy swinging from their rearview.
~ Henry Rollins
Donald Trump thinks belittling women makes him bigger. We need to stand up and be clear that we don't want this, we need to celebrate diversity. America is great because America is good.
~ Hillary Clinton
?Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is badly out of balance, in favor of men.
~ Isabel Allende
So, instead of spending my strength quarreling with the hand, I would strike for the heart of that great tyranny.
~ Jane Swisshelm
I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.
~ Jean Kerr
I think the men and women serving in Iraq today deserve special recognition for that.
~ Jeff Bingaman
There's something grand and revolutionary still about [women] traveling alone. There are some parts of the world where you can't.
~ Jen Kirkman