Quotes About Courage

Venture nothing, and life is less than it should be.

Courage is not something that you already have that makes you brave when the tough times start. Courage is what you earn when you've been through the tough times and you discover they aren't so tough after all.

What use were his talons and fangs to the dying tiger? In the clutches, say, to make matters worse, of a boa-constrictor? But apparently this improbable tiger had no intention of dying just yet. On the contrary, he intended taking a little walk, taking the boa-constrictor with him, even to pretend, for a while, it wasn't there.

It's amazing when you come to think of it how the human spirit seems to blossom in the shadow of the abattoir!

I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.

What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.

I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

Never forget," a Stranger said to me once in the lobby of the Midland Hotel in Manchester, "that only dead fish swim with the stream.

Once I was, yes. But now I have turned my direction away from anything that's racist.

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

If you're not ready to die for it, take the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe,' and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure.

Was that all love did for you? Made you give up and give in? Left you open to pain and hurt?

Who did it, Sephy?' She repeated. 'Who beat you up? 'Cause whoever it was, I'll kill them.

It was because I was scared. Scared of standing out, scared of being invisible. Scared of seeming too big, scared of being too small.

It was because I was scared. Scared of standing out, scared of being invisible. Scared of seeming too big, scared of being too small. Scared of being with Sephy, scared of being away from her.

Sometimes, when love has flown or is absent, when life knocks us to the ground and won't let us get back up, hope may be all we have left to cling to.

Don't you call my best friend that … Say that again and I'll knock you flat

Malorie Blackman

The truth doesn't stop being the truth just because you don't want to talk about it or won't face it.

Black doesn't break, we will overcome.

Women tell me they are different since 21 May - the day I was arrested - it's a positive change, they believe now.

When women break that taboo and they're not afraid to drive that car by herself - that's it. Now she has the guts to speak up for herself and take action.