Quotes about Courage

And I say to you today that we need more folks in this country who are a good crazy….You can't tell what will happen when you get folks with some good crazy…going to the polls to vote!

The audacity of hope! I still remember my grandmother, singing in the house, 'There's a bright side somewhere Ãƒ¢Ã¢'¬Ã‚¦ don't rest till you find it Ãƒ¢Ã¢'¬Ã‚¦.'" "That's right!" "The audacity of hope!

The trick is not caring that it hurts.

But know this America: we will meet them

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Sometimes you were just screwed, and the best you could do was have a stiff drink—and light up a cigarette.

We did not come here to fear the future. We came here to shape it.

I dropped to the ground and swept my hand across the smooth yellow tile. Oh, Father, I cried. There was no shame in your confusion. Just as there had been no shame in your father's before you. No shame in the fear, or in the fear of his father before him. There was only shame in the silence fear had produced. It was the silence that betrayed us.

When we've been told we're not ready," I said, "or that we shouldn't try, or that we can't, generations of Americans have responded with a simple creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes we can.

The only real difference between Anxiety and Excitement was my willingness to let go of Fear.

Every one of us is called upon, perhaps many times, to start a new life. A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move, loss of a job...And onward full-tilt we go, pitched and wrecked and absurdly resolute, driven in spite of everything to make good on a new shore. To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct...Crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is.

Move on. Walk forward into the light.