Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" When a person finally has the courage to say, 'This is who I am,' and society is not there to welcome them with open arms, it is so tragic. "

Related Quotes:

" People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too. "

" The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow. "

Marian Anderson

" If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it. "

" You can't test courage cautiously. "

" Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice. "

Lillian Hellman

" Courage in danger is half the battle. "

" It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. "

" The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion. "

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

" If his presidency is to represent the full power of the idea that black Americans are just like everyone else - fully human and fully capable of intellect, courage and patriotism - then Barack Obama has to be subject to the same rough and tumble of political criticism experienced by his predecessors. "

" More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution. "

" It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. "

" I don't believe in any Greatest Generation. I believe in great events. They sweep ordinary people up, expose them to extremes of human behavior and unimaginable tests of integrity and courage, and then deposit them back on the home front. "

" Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. "

" Grades don't measure tenacity, courage, leadership, guts or whatever you want to call it. Teachers or any other persons in a position of authority should never tell anybody they will not succeed because they did not get all A's in school. "

Thomas J. Stanley

" For some, the fear of coming out is so great, they can continue to live an inauthentic life. But at a certain point, the pain becomes too much to bear. For me, having one more day pass by where I wasn't living my true self seemed like such a wasted opportunity, such a wasted life. "

" Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. "

" Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence. "

" The reality is that Hillary Clinton has been a steadfast supporter of LGBT equality. She has evolved on the issue of LGBT equality, and I think we are a better movement when we give people space to grow and learn. We can't reduce it to a single issue like marriage equality. "

" Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. "

" I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love. "

" My student days in PSG saw three Prime Ministers, two wars, taught us courage, resilience, leadership and optimism. "

" You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. "

" I think there's a growing courage among the younger generation of American writers. Because of the more superficial treatment of characters taking place in cinema, they have had to deal with that by digging deeper into who these people are. "

" I had a long time admiration for the Jewish people. Especially with their long time of courage, taking so much abuse for so long. I was only seven years old, but I could easily see the ungodly treatment that the white folks were handing the poor Jewish family whom I worked for. "

Louis Armstrong

" Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with. "

Frank Crowninshield

" I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it. "

" If I can, in any way, give people the courage to say, 'Actually, no, the nonsense stops right here,' then I want to be a part of doing that. Especially if that means that our folks will be more free. "

" To show that a comedian on stage in India talking about sanitation or in South Africa talking about HIV and AIDS awareness, if you follow the joke into their lives, you can see that, like, oh, these things aren't just contrived in joke books. This is real life. I think the best comedians have that bravery and courage to say, Oh, this is what it is. "

" TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are learning the next day's lines while you are shooting today's scenes. I found courage I never realised I had. I hope to do more. "