Quotes About Courage

Well, the best advice I can ever give to anyone, not only in terms of mountaineering but in general life, is not to listen to anyone. Listen to your heart, believe in yourself and always give 100 percent.

There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get along, but that's not going to be very helpful for us in the long run, in terms of solving our problems. And somebody has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to, you know, the bullies.

I used to hate myself for being gay. I couldn't come to terms with it.

I haven't really done a whole lot of daring stuff. Like when I go snowboarding, I don't go in the terrain park.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

I looked death in the eye - and it was a terrible experience.

I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.

I don't think that much about my relationship with my mother and what it did to me. I sometimes feel terrible regret about her, what her life must have been like. Often, when I'm enjoying something, I think of how meager her rewards were and how much courage, in a way, she needed to go on living.

I don't consider myself a survivor; that's someone who has gone through something terrible.

We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or critics, we never would have made more than one movie.

We imagine 'the end' as a world-devastating event, but every time there's a terrible earthquake, a tsunami, an outbreak of disease - that's apocalyptic, on a micro-scale.

A lot of these things in this world were only a dream for Martin Luther King. Not a one-term, but a two-term African-American president. And this is a terrible country? That was a dream for Martin Luther King.

I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her.

I was a bit of a coward when I was small. I was terribly frightened of the dark.

When I first started auditioning I would stutter a lot because I was so terribly frightened.

I don't understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous.

I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When you've got words to say, you've got a sort of armour.

This cancer isn't life-threatening so I consider myself to be very fortunate. In the course of my charity work I meet so many people who have suffered terribly - what I've got really isn't an issue.

Exactly the style of football I love is like a terrier. We are not the biggest dog, we are small, but we are aggressive, we are not afraid, we like to compete with the big dogs and we are quick and mobile and we have endurance. We never give up. This small dog has fighting spirit for sure.

Charles B. Rangel

I do think I'm terrific at giving advice. Although in our hearts we usually know what we should do. It's rare that you get in a situation in life where you don't know how to proceed. You know the thing you should do, but don't want to.

It's fine when you careen off disasters and terrifyingly bad reviews and rejection and all that stuff when you're young; your resilience is just terrific.

I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

I am terrified of sharks, so I don't surf!