Quotes About Courage

If I am to choose two words that best describes myself, they are 'self-esteem' and 'guts.' Guts helped me become a global model.

I guess coming out against actual evil takes guts.

I've never lacked guts, for good or bad.

Having the guts to be the person you are is what makes you brave.

I want to say things on stage that I wouldn't have the guts to say in conversation.

Gutless is a strong word, do you know what I mean? It doesn't take a lot of guts to sit behind a laptop at a match and write it.

You need guts to deal with controversies.

It takes guts to take up doubles in India.

What I like about my son is he's got guts.

I want to fight the best guy. I always want to fight the best guy.

I'm not the biggest guy.

I'm not the guy to call the cops.

I'm an all-or-nothing kind of guy, I guess.

I'm just a small guy.

It was just bred in me that I would not back down to guys who were bigger than me.

I wonder sometimes if I've got in the habit of only being courageous when someone else has written the words I have to say.

How did a prairie-dwelling, red-meat-eating, gun-toting former conservative become the hope of liberal radio? It all started with this annoying habit I have of speaking my mind.

I am going to cut my hair very short; I've never done this before... I want to say I had something to do with how I look, not the cancer.

If you don't have the confidence, that's half the battle. You're going to be defeated before you even start.

I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.

I've always been impelled to say the truth. When I was 14, in 1954, I already wrote a gay novel, though I'd never read one. I felt that life handed me a great subject, gay life, that had scarcely been examined, and I was impelled to record it in all its strange detail.

Reggie Atkinson: Oh God. Oh God. I went to war with the Nazis... and for 25 years, all I've been scared of is Americans.

For The Motherland, I used to say. The rest still do. Believers all. 'Rina as a matter of faith. Lydi with all her brave young heart. Vera growls it aloud with every shot. For The Motherland. I recall the flare of warmth it brought, the comfort on each step through hell. But those days are behind me now. The words I need, I cannot speak. To accompany a bullet I can never fire.

Things aren't so bad if you can laugh at the Devil