Top 89 Woman Courage Quotes
#1. The quality you most admire in a man? Courage moral and physical: 'anima' - the ability to think like a woman. Also a sense of the absurd.
The quality you most admire in a woman? Courage moral and physical: "anima" - the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a sense of the absurd.
Christopher Hitchens
#2. The woman always wins. With courage, intelligence, and gentleness she brings the most dangerous creature on earth, the human male, to his knees.
Jayne Ann Krentz
#3. You're growing and that scares people, it frightens the shit out of them because they know if they don't step up within themselves you'll move forward with out them. When this happens, don't you dare settle to suit the mould - have courage to live without one.
Nikki Rowe
#4. A man who does not doubt the courage of a woman, is a man that is subjugated by her will and allure.
Lionel Suggs
#5. A woman should have the ballot, because without this responsibility she cannot best develop her moral courage.
Jane Addams
#6. Letty's first false step was here: she said to herself _I can not_, and did not. She lacked courage--a want in her case not much to be wondered at, but much to be deplored, for courage of the true sort is just as needful to the character of a woman as of a man.
George MacDonald
#7. A wise woman knows when to stay silent. However, a wiser woman of faith knows that sometimes words can win the battle, when all odds stand against her.
Shannon L. Alder
#8. A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy.
Suze Orman
#9. For the courage of self-sacrifice, woman is any time superior to man, as I believe man is to woman for the courage of the brute.
Mahatma Gandhi
#10. From the time I was a child I wanted to be like my mother. Not necessarily an actress - I never dreamed I'd have the courage. But an active, volatile woman like she was.
Isabella Rossellini
#11. Your power as a woman, as a mother, is your medicine, and it saved you. Take your courage in that.
Jim Fergus
#12. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
Jacqueline Bisset
#13. Writing a novel takes creativity. Publishing it takes courage
M.L. Kilian
#14. He might be a man without character, but she was a woman without courage. Of the two, which was worse?
Sue Grafton
#16. The revised edition of my book "A Woman Of Courage" is now available .
Eshelle Butler
#17. If left alone in labor, the body of a woman produces most easily the baby that is not interfered with by its mother's mind or the assistant's hand. If left alone, just courage and patience are required.
Grantly Dick-Read
#18. We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being a woman, for women have all the qualities - courage, passion, the capacity to love, cunning - whereas all our imagination can do is naively pile up the illusion of courage.
Jean Baudrillard
#19. To me, the real marks of beauty in a woman are courage, character, kindness, and personality.
David Walker
#20. Sometimes there are no words to help one's courage. Sometimes you just have to jump.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#21. No man [or woman] is free until he learns to do his own thinking and gains the courage to act on his own personal initiative.
Napoleon Hill
#22. Marriage is supposed to be a union between two equals who love and support each other, not a master-slave relationship in which the man commands a docile woman.
Robert Thier
#23. The strong lines of the woman's
face bespoke hard-won wisdom and courage, and somehow that made watching
her more difficult. If such a woman could be defeated by Elantris, what hope was there for Raoden?
Brandon Sanderson
#24. God has put into the heart of man love and the boldness to sue, and into the heart of woman fear and the courage to refuse.
Margaret Of Valois
#25. No woman could adjust herself to lesbianism without developing exceptional qualities of courage.
Diana Frederics
#26. It took great courage to ask a beautiful young woman to marry me. Believe me, it is easier to play the whole Petrushka on the piano.
Arthur Rubinstein
#27. The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that [beauty] is nothing more than an accident.
Charlie Fletcher
#29. You have found a woman who is worthy of you, with courage and hope to spare, Matthaios.' 'I know,' Matthew said, taking my hand. 'Know this, too: you are equally worthy of her. Stop regretting your life. Start living it.
Deborah Harkness
#30. Man will tell woman he will die for her, but I say, tell woman that you will die for her both physically and interior
Andrew Smith
#31. He called her: mother of pearl, barley woman, rice provider, millet basket, corn maid, flax princess, all-maker, weef She called him: fawn, roebuck, stag, courage, thunderman, all-in-green, mountain strider, keeper of forests, my-love-rides
Judy Grahn
#32. Readers understand that the books celebrate female power. In the romance novel, the woman always wins. With courage, intelligence and gentleness she brings the most dangerous creature on the earth, the human male, to his knees.
Jayne Ann Krentz
#33. It is no better if your son rapes a woman than when your daughter gets raped. It is equally painful, may be more.
~ Rudransh Kashyap
Kirtida Gautam
#34. A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace.
Suze Orman
#35. An important book for our times, in which one woman's determination and refusal to consent sets an example of courage and honesty.
Giles Foden
#36. Freedom is the liberation of my spirit and my soul from unpleasant condition.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#37. You've got to breathe! And make the bridge between the top half of your body and the bottom. Between the woman in you who's sweet and tender, and the woman in you who's a bitch.
Katie Singer
#38. The mere size of the brain has been proved to be no measure of superiority. The woman has greater moral courage than the man; she has also special gifts which enable her to govern in moments of danger and crisis. If necessary she can become a warrior.
Abdu'l- Baha
#39. I define a diva as a woman who possesses courage, beauty, style, and confidence. Based on that definitions, I've probably got a bit more work to do.
Faith Hill
#40. She realized with deep respect that this woman had always done what she had to do and faced what she had to face. If many of her fears and burdens would have seemed unreal to another woman, there was nothing unreal about her courage.
Elizabeth Goudge
#41. The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.
Joseph Conrad
#42. Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.
Virginia Woolf
#43. Although I am a woman and young, I have more than enough courage to suffer this death and a thousand more.
Policarpa Salavarrieta
#44. Standing in the ring of fire, the eye of the storm, the vortex of pain and pressure is simultaneously the most vulnerable and most powerful place to be. Here we embody paradox. We stand our ground and surrender completely. Here we know the full power of the Feminine.
Lucy H. Pearce
#45. It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
John Eldredge
#46. The woman looked out at the madness of the world and dared to hope. Her eyes were burning coals of stars.
Rivera Sun
#48. Life pulls at bewildered humanity in so many ways! Blessed is the woman who makes her life a career of stimulating the courage of others.
Margery Wilson
#49. Elizabeth Keckley was a woman of remarkable strength, courage, perseverance, and dignity. She was exceptionally talented, but also very diligent and ambitious, and together those qualities enabled her to deliver herself from slavery and become a successful businesswoman.
Jennifer Chiaverini
#50. Penny was a very pretty, witty and brave girl, as bold as a Marine platoon storming Iwo Jima.
John C. Wright
#51. So she became a woman who held her head high, not in arrogance, or contempt, but because she knew that it was a form of cowardice to make a choice and then pretend you didn't really make it
Kamila Shamsie
#52. For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
Natalie Dormer
#54. The warrior woman is filled with the courage, confidence, and inner strength to leave the past behind. She knows that there is no way to express herself fully when she is still carrying burdens that need to be released.
Debbie Ford
#55. I suppose it is because woman's courage is mental and man's physical, that in times of great strain women always make the better showing.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
#56. I think every woman should have leopard, but not every woman will wear leopard. You have to have courage to wear leopard.
Rachel Zoe
#57. Love the ones who understand you and forget the ones that don't.
Nikki Rowe
#58. Each time a woman has the courage to act and share her truth, she plants wonderful seeds. Each such seed offers freedom and power to those around her, and in this way we bring the world closer together and closer to peace.
Jodie Evans
#59. Women have their own braveries, their own mighty courageousness that is of woman, and not to be compared with the courage shown by man.
Richard Llewellyn
#60. When people want to insult a man, they cast slurs upon his courage. But the worst they can say about a woman is to impugn her chastity.
Sharon Kay Penman
#61. No phallic hero, no matter what he does to himself or to another to prove his courage, ever matches the solitary, existential courage of the woman who gives birth.
Andrea Dworkin
#62. Hasten Little Maiden
...
stop and listen
for pearls of wisdom
stop and listen
as the river glistens ...
Muse
#63. I'm not... I'm not without a heart,' he heard Sophia say, her chin raised, eyes straight ahead. 'I'm not. I just don't have the luxury of being soft. I am trying to survive.
Alexandra Bracken
#64. Jane Austen had created six heroines, each quite different, and that gave Charlotte courage. There wasn't just one kind of woman to be.
Shannon Hale
#65. But what courage can withstand the ever-during and all-besetting terrors of a woman's tongue?
Washington Irving
#66. It always seemed to me," she said at last, "that it must require a great deal of courage to be an artist, if only because the creative process is such a lonely one. I should imagine it must be all the more difficult for a woman.
Richard Yates
#68. She didn't give in to pity. That woman - girl, really - had survived a monster intent on destroying everything she was. She deserved a fucking medal for courage, not pity.
Nalini Singh
#69. When a woman needs courage, for example, life might throw a few things at her to draw it out. When a woman needs to love herself, she might be lonely while life leaves her without external hearts to hide in.
Menna Van Praag
#70. You do realize that you are addressing the emperor of the Crescent Empire."
"And you are addressing a free woman of the desert. You are not my emperor. Therefore, I am your equal.
Sarah Beth Durst
#71. Courage was an admirable trait in a man. In a woman, he decided, it was a pain in the ass.
Judith McNaught
#72. I like life, it's wonderous and chaotic and somewhere in the middle I've created a safe place to do my thing in the world ~ I can't ask for much more & I am already so thankful when everything I got
Nikki Rowe
#73. We always blame the woman when a man falls in love, as though no man had the courage of his inclinations.
Samuel Taylor
#74. Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail at all.
Maya Angelou
#75. I know that if i could imbue her with a superpower, it would be the ability to withstand the pressures of the cultures around her, to be her own woman despite the potential costs: i would give her the courage of her convictions
Peggy Orenstein
#76. My father once said something very shrewd about me to a woman journalist who had told him how courageous she thought I was for always speaking my mind. My father said, 'If you couldn't care less what anyone says about you, then it's not courage.'
Gore Vidal
#77. When we have the courage to claim space for ourselves. When we risk creativity. When we relish our sensuality. When we honor our lives and their experiences as valuable. When we create from a female body, expressing ourselves in a woman's voice, using a woman's language. We begin to bloom.
Lucy H. Pearce
#78. And so, she turned her back on the abyss for another day.
Megan Kennedy
#79. No, but you have courage. Not battle courage perhaps but ... I don't know ... a kind of woman's courage.
George R R Martin
#80. I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I'm a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.
Anne Frank
#81. From the woman who musters the courage to ask her husband to wear a condom, counter to cultural pressures, to the woman in Parliament who demands access to affordable reproductive health services for women who need them most, daring knows no scale or status.
Purnima Mane
#82. Even though you don't think you're brave, I know there's something there, something that took courage, and I want to get to know the woman with the heart of a lion that she doesn't know she has".
Victoria Villeneuve
#83. There is only one reason that a man would take a nearly fatal knife wound for a woman,' Gavril stated.
'And what reason is that?' Blaze asked.
Gavril shrugged his shoulders and replied, 'Because he values her life more than his own.
Brittany Comeaux
#84. ... I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt.
Jeanette Winterson
#85. A woman named Helen Keller fought her way through long, silent darkness.
Though she could not see or hear;
she taught us to look at and listen to each other.
Never waiting for life to get easier,
she gave others courage to face their challenges.
Barack Obama
#86. Courage is the essential element in any great public man or woman.
Paul Johnson
#88. The softest grass can break any stone in her quest to find the sun. Rise again, woman, RISE AGAIN!
Autumn Morning Star
#89. A man with integrity, with vision, with a sense of purpose and place in the world as exactly himself. That's the kind of man I'll settle for.
Nikki Rowe
