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Quotes About Courage

I want people to understand that tragedy and trial does not necessarily mean that you are a victim.
~ Marvin Sapp
This above all, to refuse to be a victim.
~ Margaret Atwood
If you can't take the heat, don't be on that street... I get abused every day, and I don't cry on anybody's shoulder. I don't play the victim card. I get abused, threatened - not only on Twitter but off it, also.
~ Smriti Irani
You can't be a victim and heal.
~ A. J. Langer
I think Sacajawea was caught in a series of tragic situations - her kidnapping as a child, her being passed from tribe to tribe, being sold into marriage. However, I never thought of her as a tragic figure. I do not think she was a victim in the way we think of tragic figures.
~ Kathryn Lasky
I didn't want people to know me as a victim.
~ Nadia Murad
A lot of negative stuff has happened to me - that's why I'm tough - but I don't want people to be like, 'Oh, poor Becky,' because I'm not a victim.
~ Rebecca Ferguson
I'm a fighter and not a victim. Think of yourself and make the most of life.
~ Jill Ireland
I am not going to play the victim.
~ Gloria Trevi
And that's what's beautiful to me, is he did not become a victim of it, and he didn't become a statistic, he just kind of kept on marching through, no matter what people threw at him.
~ Mary Stuart Masterson
I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are all kinds of people in the world, and playing them is what acting is all about.
~ Kevin Bacon
In all the horror films that I have done, all of those women were strong women. I don't feel I ever played the victim, although I was always in jeopardy.
~ Adrienne Barbeau
I'm not interested in playing the victim. I like stories about survivors.
~ Laurie Holden
I don't like to play the victim.
~ Barry Pepper
It was just you had to be strong, and if you weren't strong you're a victim and you're not going to make it. That was the reality when I was growing up.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
I don't want to be a victim.
~ Carrie Fisher
Don't make being a girl or a victim part of your stand-up act. If you encounter sexism in the business, don't bring it on stage; it's not funny.
~ Jen Kirkman
I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.
~ Kate Brown
I'm not a victim.
~ Stacey Dash
I'm not a victim, and I don't need to behave like one.
~ Lizzie Armitstead
More than a victim, I am a survivor of a dehumanization process.
~ Ingrid Betancourt
I don't do the victim mode. I don't do blame. I can't bear that.
~ Noma Dumezweni
I am not the victim, and I won't be the victim in football or life.
~ Mauricio Pochettino
I got burned by napalm, and I became a victim of war.
~ Phan Thi Kim Phuc