Quotes About Courageous

Not suppliant: never that. Defiant, unconquerable

He was very bold and very imprudent. He was famous for the first and known for the second.

I'm finding out that I'm not squeamish whatsoever.

Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.

The fact is, American law encourages whistleblowers and, often, they go down in history as courageous people of principle who made their country better.

When people tell me that I'm a hothead, I have one response, 'You got a problem with that?'

I always go extreme ways.

I'm very often described as a 'risk-taker' and 'extreme,' and there are a few examples of that, certainly in the physical experimentation.

One of the things you need to understand is that I'm not a brave person. I don't put up with being messed around, and I don't suffer fools gladly. The short version of that is that I'm a bitch. Trust me, I can produce character references. But that's something else. I'm not brave.

Walking into the very things that scare you is how you reclaim your forgotten power.

Grant worded his message to remove any suspicion that he spoke for a particular religious denomination. Also buried in his statement was a courageous, farsighted plea for free, universal education for black children. The laconic Grant's crusade for public education was a unique event in his presidency, the result of a riveting speech that had forced an issue on the national consciousness through powerful oratory.

On October 15, Adams yielded grudgingly to the appointment of Hamilton as inspector general. Knox refused to serve under him, but Charles Cotesworth Pinckney agreed and praised Hamilton. "I knew that his talents in war were great," he told McHenry, "that he had a genius capable of forming an extensive military plan, and a spirit courageous and enterprizing, equal to the execution of it.

Let's be brave girls, shall we?

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.

I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.

as she made her way back to the tiny white van she listened to her own breathing and felt her own heart thumping wildly. She had no idea where she had found the courage, but it had been there, like the water at the bottom of a disused quarry--unfathomably deep.

The systems-thinking lens allows us to reclaim our intuition about whole systems and • hone our abilities to understand parts, • see interconnections, • ask "what-if " questions about possible future behaviors, and • be creative and courageous about system redesign.

A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate.

There is a vast difference between the dutiful Christian citizen and the craven Christian who cites passages out of context in order to justify a continuation of his cowardice.

I have been a bit of a risk-taker all my life.

She is brave and strong and broken all at once.

There is only one Republican presidential candidate that has a proven, courageous, and conservative record on national security: Marco Rubio.

Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.

Various courageous Europeans in the seventies of the last century came to Ishmaelia, or near it, furnished with suitable equipment of cuckoo clocks, phonographs, opera hats, draft-treaties and flags of the nations which they had been obliged to leave.