Quotes About Bravery

The adrenaline of being somewhere no one has ever been before is, or at least not for thousands of years, is quite extraordinary and by and large that overwhelms the feeling of personal terror.

First, I am afraid to die and I love to live. But an adventure is only an adventure when there is the threat of dying.

Terrorists are always a threat to someone. If we'll be scared of them, it means they have won.

One thing I can tell you: with the threat of death hanging over you, you live life to the fullest.

The coward only threatens when he is safe.

There have been some incidents in which I was threatened and a couple of instances where I had to physically fight. Fortunately, I won in both instances.

Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings in America?

I shot my first lion at the age of 14 when a pride threatened my father's livestock while he was away on holiday.

I got a dog with a Napoleon complex. I have a Napoleon complex. We're small. Anything big that we feel is threatening us, we want to fight. We're not a pushover.

I used to get a lot of death threats. After a while I realized that no one's gonna do anything or they would've.

I've had death threats, if you can imagine.

Threats mean nothing to me.

I receive more threats than I could count; it's almost every week.

Once, when I was 5 years old, a little girl who lived next door to my grandmother dared me to put on a muumuu and run across a nearby parking lot. So I did. I threw it on, hiked it up in one hand, and ran like hell. It felt amazing to be in a dress. But suddenly my grandmother appeared, a look of horror on her face.

It's quite a thrill to be playing a hero.

I write crime novels and thrillers - I'm a big fan of cops. You can never forget that they run towards what everyone else runs away from.

Children should always be brave and do something about bullying. It's not okay to stand by and let it happen. Bullies thrive off secrecy. Children should tell someone if they see someone being bullied.

I could never say that fear really gets to me. I'm not one of those fighters like Nigel Benn who says, 'I thrive on fear.' I walk through fear.

I thrive on fear.

When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.

We got an old saying: I would rather you punch my teeth down my throat than throw a popcorn punch!

September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.

Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants.

You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.