Quotes About Courage

Being happy means you've decided to accept the imperfections and get on with it anyway.

Number 40: Love is worth the risk.

I should have been braver myself, shown you it's okay to get hurt along the way.

Courage is not the towering oak That sees storms come and go It is the fragile blossom That opens in the snow.

Prophesy if you dare.

though suffering rises up and shames me.

Okay, I have to flee the storm again. Or I could stay.

I want to move to the new country right now.

Sometimes when almost everything is wrong, one thing is so right you would do it all again.

I made dangerous choices in those years, thinking myself bold and adventurous. Later I would come to understand that I hadn't been daring at all, just driven by confusion and hormones. The person capable of true daring, I knew now, possessed two admirable qualities: curiosity and courage.

I guess the idea of stepping out from behind the "camouflage of routine," as someone once described it, still intimated me.

I had surprised myself this year by jumping in to reshape my life before life stepped in to reshape it for me.

Heap high the board with plenteous cheer and gather to the feast, And toast the sturdy Pilgrim band whose courage never ceased.

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.

I took a deep breath and—alongside the oxygen and the carbon dioxide—I exhaled tidbits of the intense shame and fear that I had carried as an extra weight on my backbone.

Holy gets angry. So does this mean we need to buy ropes and start making whips? No. But perhaps we need to stop hiding safely behind hashtag campaigns and instead show up and speak out.

The awareness of being a child of God tends to stabilize the ego and results in a new courage, fearlessness, and power.

O medo de ser julgado pelos outros funciona como uma inibição paralisante.

often, the only way forward is through an exit door.

I definitely wanted freedom, but I wasn't yet ready to step into it, embody it, breathe it, own it.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, day and night, to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight Ã¢â'¬Â¦ It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

Elaine Brown's book A Taste of Power. Elaine rose up from an impoverished childhood in North Philly to become the first and only female leader of the Black Panther Party, the '60s political organization formed to challenge police brutality, fight systemic racism, and empower black communities.