Quotes about Courage

It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break; the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours. It is the firefighter's courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a parent's willingness to nurture a child, that finally decides our fate.

Whatever you do won't be enough, I heard their voices say. Try anyway.

We are a people of improbable hope.

When I was a kid I inhaled frequently. That was the point.

As she spoke, her voice never wavered; it was the voice of someone who has forced a larger meaning out of tragedy. Or

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.