It only takes one voice, at the right pitch, to start an avalanche.

Dianna Hardy

I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.

Oprah Winfrey

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Erma Bombeck

It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.

Vanessa Paradis

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Harper Lee

You can't test courage cautiously.

Annie Dillard

I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected.

Caroline Kennedy

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Maya Angelou

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.

Isabel Allende

"Woman can if she will."

Augusta Van Buren

"There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish."

Michelle Obama

“We wander for distraction but we travel for fulfillment.”

Hilaire Belloc

"We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach."

Gloria Steinem

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”

Helen Keller

"Feminism isn't about making women strong. Women are already strong. It's about changing the way the world perceives that strength."

G.D. Anderson

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

Marcel Proust

"It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent."

Madeleine Albright

“A person susceptible to “wanderlust” is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.”

Pico Iyer

"I raise up my voice—not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back."

Malala Yousafzai

“The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.”

Alain de Botton

"People don’t take trips, trips take people."

John Steinbeck

"I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list."

Susan Sontag

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

C. S. Lewis