Quotes About Courage To Speak Up

#1. Patriotism is not 'my country right or wrong'; patriotism means loving the ideals for which America stands and having the courage to speak up when these ideals are distorted for personal or political gain. The American government was instituted to be the servant of the people, not our master.

Robert A. Heinlein

#2. It takes courage to speak up against complacency and injustice while others remain silent. But that's what leadership is.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#3. It is vital that parents have the courage to speak up and intervene before Satan succeeds. President Boyd K. Packer has taught that when morality is involved, we have both the right and the obligation to raise a warning voice.

Larry R. Lawrence

#4. It takes courage to speak up for your beliefs.

Jim George

#5. What makes for great art is the courage to speak and write and paint what you know and care about.

Audrey Flack

#6. It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.

Booker T. Washington

#7. Resounding ... with wit, courage, and compassion. Skinny will speak to everyone who has ever felt invisible or unlovable.

Kathi Appelt

#8. I catch fire and find the reserves of courage and assertiveness to speak up. When that happens I get quite carried away. My blood gets hot my brow wet I become unbearably and unconscionably sarcastic and bellicose I am girded for a total showdown.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#9. The top two lines on every prophet's job description look like this: Speak openly and clearly about what God is for. Speak openly and clearly about what God is against. The third and fourth lines look like this: I [God] am with you. Have courage. (But you may have to duck or die.)

Scot McKnight

#10. Our hearts speak the same language but more importantly our souls share the same voice.

Nikki Rowe

#11. Muslims must speak out and explain who they are, what they believe in, what they stand for, what is the meaning of their life. They must have the courage to denounce what is said and done by certain Muslims in the name of their religion.

Tariq Ramadan

#12. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Richard Branson

#13. If you possess enough courage to speak out what you are, you will find you are not alone.

Richard Wright

#14. Be bold, speak from your heart.

Nikki Rowe

#15. What needs to be counted on to have a voice? Courage. Anger. Love. Something to say; someone to speak to; someone to listen. I have talked to myself for years in the privacy of my journals.

Terry Tempest Williams

#16. Everybody's opinion is equally valid, and I feel like everybody should have an opportunity to speak out, and everyone should have the courage to speak out.

Michael Franti

#17. I never knew how to act or what to say, and when I did work up the courage to speak, I always seemed to say the wrong thing.

Ernest Cline

#18. The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. To feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end, and courage will very likely replace fear.

William James

#19. Courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say.

Seth

#20. The Hopi Indians have a saying, "To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak." I know how much courage it takes to let people hear our hearts speak, but life is way too precious to spend it pretending like we're super-cool and totally in control when we could be laughing, singing, and dancing.

Brene Brown

#21. IT IS BY CHOICE AND NOT BY CHANCES THAT WE CHANGE OUR CIRCUMSTANCES.

Nadia Sahari

#22. How is it that I could run into a gunfight against overwhelming odds and put myself between bullets and civilians, but I couldn't scrape together enough courage to speak to the one person who mattered the most to me?

Ilona Andrews

#23. The courage to speak must be matched by the wisdom to listen.

Charles E. McKenzie

#24. The third gift is Courage. May you speak and act with confidence and use courage to follow your own path.

Charlene Costanzo

#25. Heart throbs- yes, heart throbs of happiness, heart throbs of courage, heart throbs that make us feel better. Those things that appeal to others; that note of inspiration laid aside
bring it forth and let us make a magazine that will speak the language of the heart as well as of the mind.

Ami McKay

#26. To engage in civil disobedience is to feel the abundance of courage, the gratitude for a democracy that still invites us to speak from our hearts, to act from our conscience and have faith in the consequences of moral action. Abundance is a form of consciousness.

Terry Tempest Williams

#27. When you become healthy, courageous, and hopeful, following your conscience becomes much easier. When people are healthy, courageous, and hopeful, it's difficult to bend their mind and will. They will speak out what they believe, and stand up and do what is right even when it means a loss to them.

Ilchi Lee

#28. She was in no humour for conversation with anyone but himself; and to him she had hardly courage to speak.

Jane Austen

#29. With the suggestion of a compromise Gawaine mustered up enough courage to speak.
"What will you do if I surrender?" he asked.
"Why, I'll eat you," said the dragon.
"And if I don't surrender?"
"I'll eat you just the same.

Heywood Broun

#30. To love someone with all of your heart requires reaching them where they are with the only words they can understand.

Shannon L. Alder

#31. If the voice was meant to be silent we wouldn't have ears for listening.

Veronica Purcell

#32. If a man means to be hard, let him keep in his saddle and speak from that height, above the level of pleading eyes, and with the command of a distant horizon.

George Eliot

#33. You say, "Well, I am not going to be anyone's 'yes man.' If I see something wrong in a person, I'm going to warn others about it." Fine. But beware that what you are calling "courage to speak out" is not more truly a deception masking a rebellious, dishonouring attitude.

Francis Frangipane

#34. It is not courage that makes us speak the truth, but it is a hunger for truth that makes us courageous

Agona Apell

#35. Let our voices be heard. I hope they will not be shrill voices, but, I hope we shall speak with such conviction that those to whom we speak shall know of the strength of our feeling and the sincerity of our efforts.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#36. Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

Salman Rushdie

#37. Having the courage to speak one's mind is as important as knowing when the time is right to do so.

Nana Awere Damoah

#38. Courage may be taught as a child us taught to speak.

Euripides

#39. Women rise up! Speak up. Look up. Within you is all the light the world needs to scare away the darkness that holds it hostage.

Toni Sorenson

#40. If thinking men would have the courage to think for themselves, and to speak what they think, it would be found they do not differ in religious opinions as much as is supposed.

Thomas Jefferson

#41. [Introverts,] the world needs you and it needs the things you carry. So I wish you the best of all possible journeys and the courage to speak softly.

Susan Cain

#42. None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.

Lydia M. Child

#43. I speak for those children who cannot speak for themselves, children who have absolutely nothing but their courage and their smiles, their wits and their dreams.

Audrey Hepburn

#44. We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#45. Oh, to be laughed at when I have the courage to speak my heart. I don't want to live in a world like this."
-from "Diary of My Sixteenth Year

Yasunari Kawabata

#46. My Prayer? Oh' Lord give me the mind of a warrior that has been taught to fear your name, The soul of a prophet with the tongue and courage to speak truth though I be surrounded by those that despise it and the heart of a boy that believes he can slay a giant

Tonny K. Brown

#47. If everything you say gets laughed at ...
then you become afraid of everyone ...
and are no longer able to speak ...
even knowing all that does is bother everyone ...
Your heart ...
... shuts down ...
And your words die ...

Natsuki Takaya

#48. Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#49. Courage doesn't mean being free from fear; it means learning to work through fear and speak even when we are afraid.

Joanna Brooks

#50. You cannot be afraid to speak up and speak out for what you believe. You have to have courage, raw courage.

John Lewis

#51. I've been extremely fortunate in that my career allows me to be seen and heard by people all over the world and I know that my only option is to utilize this gift to speak for those who may not have the means, courage, or strength to speak out.

Sufe Bradshaw

#52. Being a leader for me is about having the courage to speak the truth, and live the truth, despite attempts to silence our thoughts, feelings, and past experiences.

Zainab Salbi

#53. I will never demean myself to speak about my courage," said Julien, coldly, "it would be mean to do so. Let the world judge by the facts.

Stendhal

#54. Dignity is never silent. It has a voice, heart and soul. Truth and courage is its foundation. It will stand against the masses and speak the truth. Because every great person has always done what others found fear in doing.

Shannon L. Alder

#55. Don't be so timid! When you were a child, didn't you speak out the truth that the oldest ones kept secret? Well, you were right then. You must find the time of innocence in yourself again, because that was also the time of courage.

Amin Maalouf

#56. Courage originally meant To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart.

Brene Brown

#57. And, Father, most of all, you taught
Me there's a Pow'r in love that naught
Can thwart, and that it moves where truth
And courage speak, and neither youth
Nor age can hinder its success,
But only fear and quietness.

John Piper

#58. To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.

William Hazlitt