Quotes About Courage

All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.

I'm not very interested in charting a day-to-day familiar reality. I'm always looking for territory in which to explore the BIG subjects, the life-or-death stories.

If I wasn't doing this kind of exploration, I'd like to be doing some other kind of exploration. It might be more risky, or less risky, but, in the business of exploration, risk is part of the territory.

When I was a young comic just starting out, I was very cautious, as I didn't want to alienate people. George Carlin's bravery became a benchmark. I became perfectly fine with alienating some people in the audience. That just comes with the territory.

In addition to surviving the Forrestal, McCain has survived three other plane disasters, including being shot down over enemy territory.

Hopefully I inspire people just to lose themselves a little bit. That's what I enjoy doing on stage: challenging myself with a new territory, like performing differently, moving differently, singing differently, just let people know that it's okay just to do something that they've never done before.

Ronda Rousey is a groundbreaker. She is one who charts through territory that has never been explored before and is one of the biggest sports stars in the world, male or female.

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

I will fight to the last breath, even though my family cowers in terror in the palace.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Faced with terror, France must be strong, it must be great, and the state authorities must be firm.

Terror can never be defeated by force alone.

When you're on the battlefield, you switch off your soul; otherwise, you would die of terror - you would die of fear. You switch off your soul, and you act like an animal or a machine.

In the right circumstances, terror is good. It makes you focus.

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.

No Spanish government has given into terror and no government will do that.

When I started out, I was absolutely awful, I had no voice, I didn't have a lot of stage presence and most of the interpretive intensity that I brought to the experience was actually terror.

We know that our life of freedom is stronger than terror.

It took a lot for me to be able to say that I'm a plus-size model or a model at all without feeling terror or this kind of panic, because it was something so unplanned.

I change my phone number, and with my soul shrunken by terror, I make the decision never to see Pablo Escobar again in my life. Overnight, I have stopped loving him.

Courage does not mean not fearing or not grieving. It does mean recognizing and resisting terror management right away, from the moment of the attack, precisely when it seems most difficult to do so.

In spite of overwhelming grief and terror, I left Westboro in 2012.

I owe it to the people of Kentucky not to bow to terror, but to continue to do what is right for their families and for mine.

We don't have to learn to live with terror, but we must be prepared and accept the reality it is here.