Quotes About Bravery

We cannot continue to ask the brave men and women of our Armed Forces to put their lives on the line to protect our country while we jeopardize their safety by failing to ensure that Defense Department funds are not siphoned off to warlords in Afghanistan.

For the American economy, for any economy to grow, to truly innovate, we cannot leave behind half our population. We have to socialize our girls to be comfortable with imperfection, and we've got to do it now. We cannot wait for them to learn how to be brave like I did when I was 33 years old.

We cannot turn away because a topic is unpleasant or vile. Why? Because one way to rid our society of evil is to confront it boldly.

We cannot let fear and terror dictate how we live our lives, no matter what. Life is a blessing with an expiration date, and we must embrace it while we can.

Stand and fight for those who are not weak but have yet to discover the strength that the evil of this world has done its best to conceal.

In 2003, I had testicular cancer, and I didn't tell anyone about it - maybe five people. I had a fairly significant surgery. I was weak, slumped over. I told people at work I'd been in an accident.

It is very unfair, and on social media you have all these keyboard warriors who just type something, and they never say it to my face. That's very weak I find.

I thought I was weak and couldn't be on my own. But actually, I can do it; I just need to be a bit braver.

America has always accomplished far more acting as courageous frontiersmen than weak reactionaries.

Don't think our soldiers are weak. Give them a free hand, and no power on the earth can defeat them.

I had the privilege of hearing incredibly brave women standing up to tell their stories - harrowing stories that reduced many of us listeners to tears. But with each story, the taboo around domestic abuse weakens and the silence that surrounds it is broken, so other sufferers can know that there is hope for them and they are not alone.

I'm not scared when I'm on the pitch.

Most pitchers fear losing their fastball, but since I don't have one, I have nothing to fear but fear itself.

Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.

You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave.

I'm scared of heights, but for my 30th birthday I'm going to try and get someone to kick me out of a plane and do a parachute jump.

I'd like to jump out of a plane. I have a fear of heights I'd like to face.

I do have a bit of a fear of heights. But I don't get scared of heights when I am flying a plane.

There's a scene I particularly like in 'Betrayed' where Shane has been shot in the side. Yet he drives to a small airport, checks out the Rockfort plane and flies himself and Elena to safety. Only when he knows they are out of danger does he allow himself to sit down on the couch and admit he's injured - to a horrified Elena.

I was in a plane that lost an engine flying from Dallas to England. It happened over the Newfoundland Sea, and it was dark, and they took away our drinks, and it was scary. I thought I was gonna die.

Paul would have jumped on a plane and asked questions later, and been there a day before we were there. That's who he was. He was fearless.

Heights are a problem for me. I'm not a brave flier and I'd never jump out of a plane or do a bungee jump.

I don't know if you'll see me jumping out of planes anytime soon.

I'm not planning to jump off a bridge with no bungee.