Quotes About Courage

Be bold, but be fair. Don't give in. If others around you have integrity, too, you can prevail

The world belongs to the few people who are not afraid to get their hands dirty." I

There are moments in our lives when we summon the courage to make choices that go against reason, against common sense and the wise counsel of people we trust. But we lean forward nonetheless because, despite all risks and rational argument, we believe that the path we are choosing is the right and best thing to do. We refuse to be bystanders, even if we do not know exactly where our actions will lead.

Whatever you do, don't play it safe. Don't do things the way they've always been done. Don't try to fit the system. If you do what's expected of you, you will never accomplish more than others expect

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope," Kennedy famously said in a speech delivered in South Africa in 1966 to condemn apartheid as well as the discrimination in his own country. "Crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Believe in your dreams and dream big. And then after you've done that, dream bigger!

If you examine a butterfly according to the laws of aerodynamics, it shouldn't be able to fly. But the butterfly doesn't know that, so it flies.

It's one thing to dream, but when the moment is right, you've got to be willing to leave what's familiar and go out to find your own sound

Part 2: Confidence

Of all weapons, love is the most deadly and devastating, and few there be who dare trust their fate in its hands.

Do not be silent; there is no limit to the power that may be released through you.

In the stillness of quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.

The awareness of being a child of God tends to stabilize the ego and results in a new courage, fearlessness, and power. I have seen it happen again and again.

MANY and varied are the interpretations dealing with the teachings and the life of Jesus of Nazareth. But few of these interpretations deal with what the teachings and the life of Jesus have to say to those who stand, at a moment in human history, with their backs against the wall.

Thurman goes on to provide a theological testimony of faith concerning the one who "announced the good news that fear, hypocrisy, and hatred, the three hounds of hell that track the trail of the disinherited, need have no dominion over [those with their backs against the wall].

FEAR is one of the persistent hounds of hell that dog the footsteps of the poor, the dispossessed, the disinherited.

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.

I've rode o'er hot, dry deserts And over mountains tall I believed in the bad land sayin' "A good gun never falls"

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts — it's what you do with what you have left.

I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.

In life it isn't what you've lost, it's what you've got left that counts

Never give in and never give up.

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts -- it's what you do with what you have left.