Quotes About Courage

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free til they find someone just as wild to run with them.

Four things greater than all things are, - Women and Horses and Power and War.

Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men and women.

Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.

I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch and all the time knowing that it is empty? This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery.

There is a growing strength in women but it's in the forehead, not the forearm.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.

I think the key is for women not to set any limits.

This is what I believe: That I am I. That my soul is a dark forest. That my known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest. That gods, strange gods, come forth from the forest into the clearing of my known self, and then go back. That I must have the courage to let them come and go. That I will never let mankind put anything over me, but that I will try always to recognize and submit to the gods in me and the gods in other men and women. There is my creed.

Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.

We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being a woman, for women have all the qualities courage, passion, the capacity to love, cunning whereas all our imagination can do is naively pile up the illusion of courage.

If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!

Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weaknesses.

Well-behaved women rarely make history.

Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.

Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.

The difficulty is not to find your purpose, it's to face it.

Your destiny is too great, your assignment too important, your time too valuable. Do not let fear intimidate you.

Our fate lives within us. You only have to be brave enough to see it. - Princess Merida

Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.