Courage Quotes

"Freedom is never given; it is won."

- A. Philip Randolph

"When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything."

- Harriet Tubman

"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression."

- W.E.B. Du Bois

"Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble."

- John Lewis

"Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion, you’re wasting your life."

- Jackie Robinson

"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; for no man should take me alive; I should fight for my liberty as long as my strength lasted, and when the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me."

- Harriet Tubman

"Don't follow the path. Go where there is no path and begin the trail. When you start a new trail equipped with courage, strength, and conviction, the only thing that can stop you is you!"

- Ruby Bridges

"Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties."

- Benjamin Banneker

"Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences."

- Marcus Garvey

"You have to be prepared to die before you can be prepared to live."

- Fred Shuttlesworth

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size in the fight of the dog."

- Archie Griffin

"True champions aren’t always the ones that win, but those with the most guts."

- Mia Hamm

"Never walk away from home ahead of your axe and sword. You can’t feel a battle in your bones or foresee a fight."

- The Havamal

"The game honors toughness"

- Brad Stevens

"that all I expect from them at practice and in the games is their maximum effort"

- John Wooden

"Failure does not come from losing, but from not trying"

- Larry Brown

"Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it’s not the best thing for you"

- Bill Belichick

"If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful"

- Charles Barkley

"The best revenge is not to be like your enemy."

- Marcus Aurelius

"He who fears death will never do anything worthy of a man who is alive."

- Seneca

"The best way to avenge yourself is to not be like that."

- Marcus Aurelius

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."

- Seneca

"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injustice."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children."

"Most people run from what they’re afraid of. I run toward it. That doesn’t mean I think I’m bulletproof (I’ve learned the hard way that I’m not) or that I’m unaware of danger. I experience fear as much as the next man. But one of the greatest mistakes people can make is becoming comfortable with their fears."

"When the world tells you to shrink, expand."

"Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."

"Leave everything on the field; no regrets."

"Rise above the challenge and shine."

"In soccer, every moment is a chance to prove yourself."