Courage Quotes

"I respect a man who knew how to live and I respect him more if he dies for something real."

"Better to be a live dog than a dead lion but best of all is to be a live lion and not care what happens."

"In the struggle for dignity, there is no minor victory."

"The only true failure is the failure to start"

"Life is a wonderful thing if you don't weaken."

"To live is to act, and action requires courage."

"Every poem is a small act of resistance."

"The greatest courage is to be true to yourself."

"People look at my disability and see limitations. I look at it and see possibility."

"I refused to accept the world's limitations on who I could become."

"Courage is speaking your truth even when your voice shakes."

"We grow not by avoiding darkness but by learning to navigate it."

"Courage is not the absence of fear but action despite it."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but action despite it."

"Courage is being afraid but doing it anyway."

"A writer must have the courage to be himself, no matter how unfashionable."

"To forgive yourself is the greatest act of courage."

"Just accept that you're a weirdo and own it."

"You have to embrace life and its challenges."

"You have to be willing to take chances to get anywhere."

"To be honest you have to take risks with the language."

"We are defined by our choices, not our circumstances."

"To write is to risk yourself in language."

"A poem is a small act of resistance against silence."

"I respect anyone who can stand up and be counted."

"To write is to commit an act of courage against forgetting."

"The real miracle is not that I learned to write with my left foot, but that I learned to live with purpose despite my limitations."

"I learned that you do not need legs to stand up for what you believe in."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the insistence on living anyway."

"Cowardice is the father of cruelty."