Quotes About Bravery

My father was a pioneer in so many ways. He was fearless, and I think that I kind of picked that up from him as well.

The bravery and pioneering of early Hollywood was absolutely incredible.

The measure of a man's life is how he copes with the terrible wall of fear.

An honest cop still can't find a place to go and complain without fear of recrimination. The blue wall will always be there because the system supports it.

You get into a situation where your back's up against the wall and you don't have any option but to go out swinging, so you might as well go for it.

Captain Richard Phillips of the good ship Maersk Alabama - and Sully Sullenberger splashing down his crippled airliner in the Hudson River - broke through the poisonous smog of economic depression and Wall Street skullduggery with a reminder that pure individual heroism is a daily occurrence if we know where to look for it.

Don't sit there and wallow in woe-is-me stuff that happened in your past. Move forward. Face whatever you're afraid of. Or deal with it.

Daleks scared the hell out of me, to the point where I wouldn't go round to another boy's house because he had Dalek wallpaper in his bedroom.

President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the walls of our compartmentalized minds, opens our hearts and makes us brave. And that's what we need most in our country today.

I don't live in a prism, and I'm not afraid of anything. I haven't built any walls around myself.

Brave doesn't spread hate or bully the vulnerable. Brave doesn't put greed and self-interest over millions of lives. Brave doesn't cower behind lies and walls. Brave doesn't pit people against one another. That's what fear does.

It takes courage to break down the walls that keep you away from really living your life.

Guys always get jealous or envious of an opportunity, but they never wanna walk out to the mound and point to the crowd and tell them where they're going to hit the ball. I will. I'll call my shots.

I was a child among the lions. Now I want to be one of those lions.

If you want to do something, go for it -you've got nothing to lose.

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

I wanted to choose somewhere public, because I was scared of the KGB.

Wanting to do it was much more powerful than the fright.

I have not yet begun to fight!

In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.

No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.

Surviving is the only glory in war.