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Quotes About Courage

No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there.
~ Corra May Harris
Don't ask permission to be happy. Don't beg for forgiveness. Just do it.
~ Paulo Coelho
Even forgiveness, if weak and passive, is not true: fight is better. Forgive when you could bring legions of angels to the victory.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Let me embrace thee sour adversity for wise men say it is the wisest course.
~ William Shakespeare
Freedom is not given - it is taken.
~ Subhas Chandra Bose
I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.
~ Harriet Tubman
I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
~ Nina Simone
My people are scared of the air around them, they always have an excuse not to fight for freedom.
~ Fela Kuti
I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We have dared to be free. Let us dare to be so by ourselves and for ourselves.
~ Unknown
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
~ Aristotle
Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
~ Pericles
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
A people who mean to be free must be prepared to meet danger in person, and not rely upon the fallacious protection of armies
~ Edmund Randolph
Those prepared to give their lives in freedom's cause, come over to me.
~ Unknown
Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
~ Janis Joplin
I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.
~ Kailash Satyarthi
Freedom is too enormous to be slipped under a closet door.
~ Harvey Milk
Freedom will cost you the mask you have on, the mask that feels so comfortable and is so hard to shed off, not because it fits so well but because you have been wearing it so long.
~ Florinda Donner
I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
~ Langston Hughes
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
~ Angela Davis
This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
~ Elmer Davis
Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.
~ Mark Twain
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere.
~ Nelson Mandela