As you go along your own road in life, you will, if you aim high enough, also meet resistance... But no matter how tough the opposition may seem, have courage still and persevere.

Successful leaders have the courage to take action while others hesitate.

The secret to life and the greatest success strategy of all is to love all of it and fear none of it.

The highest form of success comes to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and who, out of these, wins the splendid ultimate triumph.

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it

I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

Goodness, in their opinion, was not a virtue but merely spinelessness and fear disguised as humility.

I know we lived among extraordinary things but, perhaps more importantly, in extraordinary times. People may or may not remember the heroes and the villains of our day, but all that the brave among us did, and all that they were, remains with us still.

A little love, a little buckshot, that's how I'd say handle yourself.

She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that no is a word the world never learned to say to her.

You know Shug will fight, he say. Just like Sofia. She bound to live her life and be herself no matter what.

It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how come I know trees fear man.