Courage Quotes

"Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown."

- Anthony Bourdain

"What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?"

- Angie Thomas

"“When Harry thought about Winnie and the voyage across the ocean, his head said, ‘I shouldn’t.’ His head said, ‘I can’t.’ But his heart made up his mind.”"

- Lindsay Mattick

"“Becoming fearless isn’t the point. That’s impossible. It’s learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.”"

- Veronica Roth

"“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.”"

- Harper Lee

"“The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.”"

- Christopher Paolini

"When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough."

- Donald Trump

"We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges."

- Barack Obama

"I'm not confrontational, but if someone challenges, I'm not going to back down."

- Drake

"For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own."

- Joe Biden

"It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that things are difficult."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Do not fear power. Fear those who wield it!"

- Danbear02

"Do the thing that you're unwilling to do but that you know you need to do."

- Stefanos

"Make people laugh when you tell them the truth, or they will kill you."

- Oscar Wilde

"You may kill me with your hatefulness. But still, like air, I’ll rise."

- Maya Angelou

"We are not ready to fight because we love fighting. We are ready to fight because we are worth fighting for."

- Zoé Samudzi

"If there is just about anything to rejoice it can be my ancestors, African People who survived the atrocity and stain of slavery… I honor them these days with a guarantee that I will keep on to combat for your unexplored desires and hopes."

- Viola Davis

"…Juneteenth, the day we celebrate the end of slavery, the day we memorialize those who offered us hope for the future and the day when we renew our commitment to the struggle for freedom."

- Angela Davis

"We have suffered discrimination. We have suffered isolation and undermining. But we stand up for America, oftentimes when others who think they are more patriotic, who say they are more patriotic, do not."

- Maxine Waters

"My fellow Americans, this is a special moment in our history. Just as people of all faiths and no faiths, and all backgrounds, creeds, and colors banded together decades ago to fight for equality and justice in a peaceful, orderly, nonviolent fashion, we must do so again."

- John Lewis

"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses Black people and people of color."

- Colin Kaepernick

"Black liberation has never just been about Black people. It’s been about a fight for our humanity, for our dignity."

- Patrisse Cullors

"The pursuit of justice is all I have ever known."

- Harry Belafonte

"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."

- Ida B. Wells-Barnett

"Ours is not the struggle of one day, one week or one year. Ours is not the struggle of one judicial appointment or presidential term. Ours is the struggle of a lifetime, or maybe even many lifetimes, and each one of us in every generation must do our part."

- John Lewis

"It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody."

- Malcolm X

"But if you know what life is worth / You would look for yours on Earth / And now a you see the light / You stand up for your right."

- Bob Marley

"Let us not assume for one moment that our work is done, the struggle for equal justice continues."

- Fred David Gray

"Your illness does not define you. Your strength and courage do."

"Happy birthday to my strong and fearless sister. On your special day, remember there's nothing you can't achieve-and I'll always be right here to support you."