People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.
Gabrielle GiffordsRead
My spirit is as strong as ever. I'm still fighting to make the world a safer place, and you can, too.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes resilience and the call to action in the face of adversity.
Gabrielle Giffords expresses a powerful message about inner strength and perseverance despite challenges. She encourages others to join her in making a positive change in the world, highlighting that each individual has the capacity to contribute to a safer and better society.
In practice
In a motivational speech about community service, one could use this quote to inspire action.
People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.
While my speech is getting better every day, throughout my recovery, I have been able to sing to some extent.
Our democracy's history is littered with names we neither remember nor celebrate - people who stood in the way of progress while protecting the powerful. On Wednesday, a number of senators voted to join that list.
Hope and faith. You have to have hope and faith... Long ways to go. Grateful to survive. I's frustrating. Mentally hard. Hard work. I'm trying. Trying so hard to get better. Regain what I've lost... I will get stronger. I will return.
My resolution, standing with the vast majority of Americans who know we can and must be safer, is to cede no ground to those who would convince us the path is too steep, or we too weak.
Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something.
Warriorship does not refer to making war on others. Aggression is the source of our problems, not the solution. Warriorship is the tradition of human bravery, or the tradition of fearlessness.
And when someone apologizes to you enough times for things they'll never stop doing, I think it's FEARLESS to stop believing them. It's FEARLESS to say "you're NOT sorry" and walk away.
I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people. So I've always said 'yes' to the thing I'm most scared about. The fear of letting myself down - of saying 'no' to something that I was afraid of and then sitting in my room later going, 'I wish I'd had the guts to say this or that' - that galvanizes me more than anything.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
If you were a pure bolt of fire-cutting the skies I'd touch you-risking my life-not because I'm brave or strong, but because I'm fascinated by what the outcome would be.
I want to see young people in America feel the spirit of the 1960s and find a way to get in the way. To find a way to get in trouble. Good trouble, necessary trouble.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.