Quotes About Bravery

I've fought my whole life. I've fought whoever they put in front of me. Whether it was in boxing or in the street or whatever, I've never backed down from a fight.

My father's a firefighter. He was my whole life. And my brother-in-law and several family members are firefighters.

I am proud to be the granddaughter and daughter of immigrants who were brave enough to leave their homes and come to a whole new world with a different language and culture and immerse themselves fearlessly to start a better life for themselves and their families.

I feel simultaneously completely vulnerable and made wholly brave by becoming a parent. It has changed the way that I live my life. Because I want to be an example for my son.

Every true Christian is a soldier - of Christ - a hero 'par excellence'! Braver than the bravest - scorning the soft seductions of peace and her oft-repeated warnings against hardship, disease, danger, and death, whom he counts among his bosom friends.

But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.

The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.

'No fear' is a mindset that I stand for. It's the reason why I've got to where I am today.

I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway.

Why did the chicken cross the road? To prove to the possum that it could be done.

Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.

A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.

It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

I've traveled the world and been about everywhere you can imagine. There's not anything I'm scared of except my wife.

I think that people are looking beyond the wig. I think they are saying, This isn't just a costume; there's a person behind this. If this costume, this character, this person has this kind courage? Why don't we share that?

When I shaved my hair, my friends asked me to keep it, maybe make my own wig out of it, but I wanted the old hair to go; it was not mine. I wanted to let go.

There was one scene in which I wore a wig, full make-up and stilettos and thought, 'Oh my God, my family, all my friends in Tottenham! Nobody's ever seen me like this before... ' It was definitely a challenge but it helped me become braver as an actor.

Molly Shannon, for example, is someone I've always really looked up to, because her comedy is so physical and wild and unembarrassed and brave.

That's part of my military character, I think. You back one of us into a corner, and you can only expect one thing: us coming at you like wild, rabid dogs.

I was one of the first three black students to go to an all-white school in Tennessee.

The term 'hero' irritates me greatly.

There is a term called political correctness, and I consider it to be a euphemism for political cowardice.

I haven't really done a whole lot of daring stuff. Like when I go snowboarding, I don't go in the terrain park.