Courage Quotes

"We need to stop waiting for permission to be ourselves and start giving ourselves that permission right now."

"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."

"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather an assessment that something else is more important than fear."

"To ignore injustice is to become complicit in it."

"Integrity means doing the right thing even when it costs you dearly."

"A moment of moral courage can change the course of a lifetime."

"To stand alone is difficult; to stand alone for what is right is noble."

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."

"The time for half measures and soft words is past."

"To be silent is to be complicit."

"The greatest tragedy is not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people."

"We will fight for our rights with whatever means available to us."

"Complacency in the face of injustice makes us complicit in that injustice."

"Moral courage is the rarest and most necessary form of bravery."

"The call to justice is a call to discomfort and difficult work."

"Patience in the face of injustice is complicity in that injustice."

"Courage is not the absence of fear but the commitment to act despite it."

"The only impossible journey is the one you never begin."

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear."

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."

"Everything you want is on the other side of fear."

"The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek."

"What we fear most is usually what we most need to do."

"Courage is not the absence of fear; it is moving forward in spite of the fear that surrounds you."

"I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired, and I want to do something about it."

"If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary."

"They beat me until I couldn't recognize myself. That's when it stopped being just about me."

"If I am murdered, it will be for the cause of freedom and equality."