Quotes About Bravery

It's not fun facing a ball going 97 mph, trust me.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

I'd love to say that I'm this brave person doing this big adventure and that it's easy. The truth is, the night before I left, I called my mom, crying and nervous, thinking, 'What am I getting into? Can I really ride my bike across the country?'

I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.

What I've found - and the older I get, the more I understand this and stand behind it - is, my whole life has been an exploration of telling the truth. It's scary to be truthful, and it's scary to reveal yourself, and I'm very attracted to doing things that scare me.

Brave, bold men, these are what we want. What we want is vigour in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles and nerves of steel, not softening namby-pamby ideas.

I'm not scared of any opponent. I fight who I want to fight.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.

Fear hurries on my tongue through want of courage.

The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be. Because of all I may become, I will close my eyes and leap.

Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.

It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.

You have to fight, you have to have courage for what you really want

I am not brave enough to not pay my income tax and risk going to jail. But I can say rather freely what I want to say with my art.

You have to be stronger than your fears if you want to get anything done in this life.

We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a nuclear bomb, we are brave enough to say that we want it. But we never do that.

I think life is always dangerous. Some people get afraid of it. Some people don't go forward. But some people, if they want to achieve their goal, they have to go. They have to move.

I like heroes, and would like to be a hero myself. I suppose we all want that.

I'm really happy I'm me because if I wasn't I'd be scared. If you want that Number One spot you need to listen to my album and try to beat it.

Tallulah [Bankhead] is always skating on thin ice. Everyone wants to be there when it breaks.

Good actors go to emotional places where nobody else wants to go.

What I'm certain I don't want is to find myself someday in a new century, an old bitter woman looking back, wishing that right now I'd had more nerve.

Sorry, I've had enough of running away, Sophie. Now I've got something I want to protect. It's you.