Quotes About Courage

When you make a courageous statement, people start to follow you, and that's nice.

I just believe in speaking truth and probably that is why leaders are scared of my statements.

History will do what it always does. It will make ignorant statements, in retrospect, seem shortsighted and discriminatory, and the women who will serve their country bravely in the jobs that are now opening up will prove them wrong. Just like we always have.

I don't get bothered about statistics. If somebody had pointed out to me the odds of my being a working actress getting paid for what she does, I probably would have quit early in the game.

I base jumped off the Jesus statue in Rio de Janeiro.

The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers.

The first time I saw America was from my perch on the mast of a Spanish naval ship, where I could spot the Statue of Liberty reaching proudly into the open, endless American sky.

People like me might be small in stature, but they can also act.

I have no status or stardom. I was just willing to die for my dream.

The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.

Being quiet is comfortable. Keeping things the way they've been is comfortable. And all comfort has done is maintain the status quo.

I love revolutionaries who have the courage to stand up against the status quo. They're always misunderstood, but they're the ones who are standing up for human rights.

Status quo just means that everyone's doing it. It doesn't mean that this was divinely ordained, and of course this is the right decision.

Most legacy companies get crushed - they get Blockbustered - because they are too afraid to walk away from the status quo, to embrace what the future is.

I really think it would be cowardly to pull back and not challenge the status quo, when the status quo may not be the right way for the field to go.

If you step out and do what you feel is right... and you're not attacking a person, and you're attacking a process, and you're attacking the status quo... and if somebody wants to hold a grudge against me, that's on them. It's not on me, and I'm going to do what I think is right.

Anytime that someone defies the status quo and defies oppression, it feels like a step in the right direction.

The status quo will not stand, because we believe in a very different New Mexico. Together we will find the courage to create the promise of tomorrow for our children and their children.

People are scared to speak out against the status quo: their jobs and livelihoods, they believe, are at risk.

Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.

Soldiers, I intend to stay here, not only as long as a man remains, but as long as a piece of a man is left.

A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.

You can bend, but never break. Stay Unbreakable!

Loving people does not require you to stay silent when you see something that merits being called out.