Quotes About Courage

I had no money, no grades, no athletic ability. Nothing but hope.

I always thought I would move to New York after graduation, but, instead, I moved to Los Angeles. I realized I was more scared of that choice than I was of New York, and I thought, at 22, I should get it over with.

I like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge.

It's always great to play a character that goes against the grain. Finn defies what people think when they think of stormtroopers.

I did what I did. I went against the grain. And I understand that I would be criticized. Those were all choices.

We need to have leaders that aren't afraid to go against the grain to call out failures in leadership.

My father was a fighter. My grandfather was a fighter. It's just in my blood.

I grew up with a marine grandfather. I was never allowed to say 'can't' or 'no', and I was never allowed to back down.

When I was younger, I was always that person that loved to get stuck in. When my mum and grandma used to come and watch me, I used to make sure that I wouldn't let anybody push me around and not let anybody bully me.

At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general.

My mom started an air-freight company; my grandmother built a golf course. I have a certain degree of entrepreneurial risk-taking in my family history. Maybe that eventually rubbed off on me a little bit.

Now my grandmother, who used to want sons, says that she does not really want boys anymore. She says I'm the lion of the family.

My grandparents and my parents came over from Cuba with nothing to their name just for a chance of freedom and opportunity.

Leaders grasp nettles.

Somebody showed me a fight where somebody had gotten cut on the forehead and was just gushing blood and kept going throughout the fight. I couldn't grasp the concept that anybody would want to do that.

I'm grateful to all the non-risk-takers.

I defy gravity.

I love the gray areas, but I like the gray areas as considered by bright, educated, courageous people.

I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line.

I get afraid of the dark if I'm in a great deal of dark, and I have to move around inside of that fear... But there is a chance that something... will talk to me from the dark, so I have... to be prepared for that communication, which has happened.

It takes a great deal of courage to give me a public shout out, that's for sure.

It takes a great deal of courage to love.

My early experiences in animation taught me that following someone else is not a great idea.

There is so many good ideas that are left on the shelf of people going, 'I've kind of great idea, but I just - I'm afraid.' Out of fear. Fear blocks all of that it's a false fear.