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Quotes About Courageous

There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.
~ Alfred P. Sloan
In 'The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow,' part of the 'Dear America' series, I took my childhood bravery and stubbornness and put that at the core of the Navajo girl, Sarah Nita. It helped me to identify with her survival and to write about her courageous journey and that of her people.
~ Ann Turner
Joe Frazier was the epitome of a champion. I mean, here is a guy who was total old school, blue collar, who would fight anybody. You know, he didn't tell you he was the best fighter pound for pound.
~ Sugar Ray Leonard
Brave and anal: the ideal space explorer. Though you don't find "anal" on any of those lists of recommended astronaut attributes. NASA doesn't really use words like anal. Unless they have to.
~ Mary Roach
I thought the country I'd just described to them - a hopeful, generous, courageous America, an America that was open to everyone. At about the same age as the graduates were now, I'd seized on that idea and clung to it for dear life. For their sake more than mine, I badly wanted it to be true.
~ Barack Obama
The students and their parents had cheered, many of them waving American flags of their own. I thought about the country I'd just described to them—a hopeful, generous, courageous America, an America that was open to everyone. At about the same age as the graduates were now, I'd seized on that idea and clung to it for dear life. For their sake more than mine, I badly wanted it to be true.
~ Barack Obama
Prepared Imaginative Good at listening Powerful Humorous Adventurous Self-assured Intuitive Loyal Persistent Goal-Oriented Courageous Determined Committed Self-affirming Resilient Genuine Aware of my talents Responsible Passionate Positive Creative Playful Independent Optimistic Caring
~ Stephen R. Covey
To love is a brave thing. To be loved, braver still. But allowing yourself to love yourself? That takes the most courage of all.
~ Debby Ryan
As a young person, to already have the courage to face the pitiless glare, to overcome the fear of death, and to regain respect for death – this is the task of this young generation.
~ Joseph Goebbels
La fuerza y ??la salud habitan en los intrépidos. Por el contrario, el miedo asedia incluso a aquellos que se arman hasta los dientes, y a estos más que a otros
~ Ernst Junger
If we were bees, ants, or Lacedaemonian| warriors, to whom personal fear does not exist and cowardice is the most shameful thing in the world, warring would go on forever. But luckily we are only men — and cowards.
~ Erwin Schrodinger
Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.
~ Euripides
Always do what you're afraid to do"-Robert F. Kennedy
~ Evan Thomas
This is reporting the way I like it... in the field, gritty and aggressive.
~ Chris Hansen
I'm incredibly defiant against neo-Nazis and skinheads.
~ David Draiman
The whole period seemed to come alive to her sensitive imagination,--the people of the times, substantial and courageous, walked and talked with her. For the first time she was sensing to-day a romance in her own Midwest, a glamour over the lives of her own people. She wished she could hold to her heart the fleeting sensation until she could get pencil and paper. She wished she could catch it and hold it between the covers of a book.
~ Bess Streeter Aldrich
Future strong is being focused enough and mindful enough and courageous enough to search for patterns and order when all others see chaos and noise.
~ Bill Jensen
I'm that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half horse, half alligator, a little touched with the snapping turtle; can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride upon a streak of lightning and slip without a scratch down a honey locust; can whip my weight in wildcats and, if any gentleman pleases, for a ten dollar bill he may throw in a panther …
~ Bill O'Reilly
I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.
~ Bill Rancic
I am not sorry. I will never be sorry. I would do everything I did again if I had to. Everything.
~ Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
As a writer, the best mindset is to be unafraid.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion of ideas; he seldom allowed sentimentality to turn him from the glaring fact.
~ H.L. Mencken
I'm just a tough old woman.
~ Marjory Stoneman Douglas
I guess I'm just a tough cookie.
~ Cesaro