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Quotes About Courageous

I want to meet muckrakers, carousers, the sweet-toothed, and the lion-hearted, and you don't know if yet, but you are all of these.
~ Elizabeth Mckenzie
The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless.
~ Author Unknown
Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
~ B. R. Ambedkar
It's rare to find a film that goes for broke and says, 'To hell with the consequences.'
~ Roger Ebert
Whatever you thought of his politics, Ronald Reagan was a great man, a courageous man. He took an assassin's bullet and joked to the doctors as they desperately worked to save his life.
~ Christopher Buckley
I'm pretty gritty.
~ Amy Hood
What I like about my son is he's got guts.
~ Nigel Benn
You are a fierce Librarian, aren't you?
~ Garth Nix
Slander may be defeated by equanimity; but courageous thoughts will not pay your baker's hill, and fortitude is nowhere considered legal tender for beef.
~ George Eliot
The period characters I have played have all been these wonderfully forward-thinking women.
~ Phoebe Fox
In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.
~ Major Taylor
True faith energizes vocal proclamation and courageous witness concerning its glorious object: Jesus.
~ Sam Storms
You speak your mind, don't you...? A rare find in a woman.
~ Marianne Wiggins
Her emergence from that institution and rebirth as an effective and innovative mental health worker is not simply a miracle. Her dedication to self-healing, her persistent attempts at creating a helpful environment, and her willingness to receiver support from those around her, reveal her recovery as the outcome of careful and courageous self-examination and hard work. (xii)
~ Marie Balter
Los errores de Ortega no fueron los de un cobarde ni los de un oportunista; a lo más, los de un ingenuo que se empeñó en encarnar una alternativa moderada, civil y reformista en momentos en que ésta no tenía la menor posibilidad de concretarse en la realidad española.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Living your faith is a scary business. It puts you at risk of being reviled by people on all sides, believers and nonbelievers—anyone who sees your taking a stand as a threat to their status quo.
~ Annie Jones
Todas as grandes descobertas da cozinha tradicional, os primeiros tipos que comeram miúdos de vitela, ou experimentaram queijo Stilton não pasteurizado, ou descobriram que os caracóis afinal sabem bem com bastante manteiga de alho, eram todos temerários e inovadores, ou estavam desesperados.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Nobody was twee or naff. Nobody complained. Everyone was bold.
~ Simon Doonan
The only selfish life is a timid one.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Bravery in not the absence of fear
~ Thabiso Monkoe, The Azanian
Be daring. Better to fail spectacularly then stay safe and achieve meh. -- Anonymous
~ Sue Ward Drake, Hear No Evil
Live life daringly.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
It seems to me that we are always falling off the horse on one side or the other in this matter of being tough and tender, durable and delightful, courageous and compassionate—wimping out on truth when we ought to be lionhearted, or wrangling when we ought to be weeping.
~ John Piper
You are both daring and unscrupulous, and you think fast. I have been looking for a person with those particular characteristics. Also I noticed you speak Babylonian.
~ Eloise Jarvis McGraw