Quotes About Courage

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Lisa Gardner

Standing up to bullies is the hallmark of a civilized society.

We make progress in society only if we stop cursing and complaining about its shortcomings and have the courage to do something about them.

The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn't stop anyone.

Be brave and celebrate with us your 'perceived flaws,' as society tells us. May we make our flaws famous, and thus redefine the heinous.

Rosa Parks will be remembered for her lasting contributions to society. Her legacy lives on in the continued struggle for civil rights around the world. She will be missed.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live

There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.

In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.

By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar.

Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.

As a society, we've become terrified of failure, but you can't grow without risking it.

In an oppressive society if a group stands up to take care of the lambs, it automatically stands up against the wolves.

Those who in this world have the courage to try and solve in their own lives new problems of life, are the ones who raise society to greatness.

Hope that justice will be done to those brave men who stood up for their convictions.

I wish we lived in a society that made it safe and provided the courage for everyone to come out.

The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice.

The hero's will is not that of his ancestors nor of his society, but his own. This will to be oneself is heroism.

Trying to fit in will not change a society. To change it, you have to be brave, fearless, and strong enough to withstand societal criticism so that you may break the boundary and let light come in.

Fear trumps empathy.

You don't have to stand up for your rights to get justice, sometimes you can sit for your rights like Rosa Parks.

Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.