Quotes About Courage

Saddle your dreams afore you ride 'em.

This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

We cannot have real independence unless the people banish the touch-me-not spirit from their hearts.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Freedom and independence form my character.

I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.

I'm going to steal the Declaration of Independence.

Freedom fighters don't always win, but they're always right.

It takes a great deal of courage and independence to decide to design your own image instead of the one that society rewards, but it gets easier as you go along.

Freedom and independence is my character.

Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty.

For me a simple message, to think and act with courage, independence and imagination.

Irreverence is a declaration of independence.

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.

Timid and cowardly soldiers cause the loss of a nation's independence; but pusillanimous magistrates destroy the empire of the laws, the rights of the throne, and even social order itself.

Passivity is the dragon every woman has to murder in her quest for independence.

Be courageous. Be independent. Only remember where the true courage and independence come from.

We need steel spines, not weak knees when it comes to political independence in the Department of Justice.

Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards.

At the age of three my grand aunt proclaimed her independence by categorically refusing to have her feet bound, resolutely tearing off the bandages as fast as they were applied.

She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more bitterly, that young girl's genuine independence, largeness, scope, and courage.

Courage lies in being oneself, in showing complete independence, in loving what one loves, in discovering the deep roots of one's feelings.