Quotes About Courage

I think everybody's trying to get to a place in themselves where they conquer what they was afraid of; they achieve some of their life goals, kept their word about what they were trying to do.

Jazz is a fighter. The word 'jazz' means to me, 'I dare you. Let's jump into the unknown!'

Empowerment is a word that comes with liberty.

We in the U.A.E. have no such word as 'impossible'; it does not exist in our lexicon. Such a word is used by the lazy and the weak, who fear challenges and progress.

I don't lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

'Widow' is a word I never thought would describe me, but I had to learn to deal with that.

Risk isn't a word in my vocabulary. It's my very existence.

Valor' is a word we don't commonly hear. People can show courage and bravery confronting many different challenges in life. But 'valor' connotes willingly putting oneself in mortal danger to protect others.

Risk is the sort of word that is easy to discuss upfront but tough to handle when it comes time to pay the piper. There will always be some who wimp out and second-guess when the pain hits, but that is a childish reaction.

Marines don't know how to spell the word 'defeat'.

People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret.

Every man of courage is a man of his word.

First it was the whites, and then their Negro message bearers. And the word was always the same: 'Tell your sons to take their names off the books. Don't show up at the courthouse voting day.'

Cancer is the ugliest, scariest, most dreaded word in the English language. My credentials for saying so? Head-to-head, firsthand close encounters with different versions of the fiendish devil.

My advice to every one expecting to go into business is to hit often and hit hard; in other words, strike with all your might.

You can still say whatever you want to say on social media, but you have to be willing to stand by your words.

I am righteous and not afraid to speak my truth. My delivery might not always be as diplomatic as I would like it to be, but my words are truthful - spoken from the heart and to the point.

We'll tell fear it can come along with us in our minivan, okay? But we'll just tell fear it can't drive. Sometimes we'll tell it to not even talk. Like when we tell our kids, 'Enough. No words.' We're going to play the quiet game with fear. Fear is not the boss of us.

When this ugly gangster told Joe Glaser that he must take the name of Armstrong down, off of the marquee, and it was an 'order from Al Capone,' Mr. Glaser looked this cat straight in the face and told him these words: 'I think that Louis Armstrong is the world's greatest, and this is my place, and I defy anybody to take his name down from there.'

No one goes unscathed, we all go through things. We just can't let people's nasty words become our beliefs about ourselves, you know?

The words 'give up,' 'raise the white flag' do not exist in my vocabulary.

I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.

My talk is inside of the cage. This is my real words where I talk every time. I think this is really important. You can speak before the fight on whatever you want, but inside of the Octagon, inside of the cage, it shows who you are. You can speak whatever you want, but who you are is who you will be inside the cage.

I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.