Quotes About Courage

Coming to serve in the Senate and also running for the Senate in a short time period is not for the faint of heart. But I am not fainthearted.

I don't think people would climb mountains or jump off bridges with parachutes or kayak Class V rapids if those things didn't offer the brief and horrible illusion of imminent death. They would just be complicated, time-consuming endeavors that we'd steer well clear of because they got in the way of real life.

The idea of taking command of your life and doing something that you're not sure if you can do and you're not really sure if you should do it, I think is pretty timeless. We all face those doubts often, if not constantly.

In difficult times fashion is always outrageous.

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

I believe that everyone has good days and bad days, but you can't let the bad times beat you down.

The number of times I have fallen down is the number of times I have gotten up.

If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but you've been told many times before messiah's point you to the door though no one's got the guts to leave the temple.

There are times when you need a strategic quarterback who has a proven record, and certainly, Colin Kaepernick is one of those.

I bet some of you feel sorry for me. Well don't. Having an artificial leg has its advantages. I've broken my right knee many times and it doesn't hurt a bit.

Positive things come out of even the most difficult times.

My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.

The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest and the rarest.

I like to be in over my head always, at all times.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren't enough to hold us steady when the challenges come... We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life's hard times.

I want to stand on a platform in the middle of Times Square and shout, 'You do not have to battle your Crohn's disease alone.'

It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.

Chess is not for timid souls.

Editors have grown timid... a brave advance is almost inevitably followed by quick back-tracking, generally by dilution and debasement of the original intention.

The best leaders don't set timid and selfish goals but instead set bold targets that may be harder to achieve.

The publishing world is very timid. Readers are much braver.

I do like a healthy dose of adrenalin, but my character is more rounded. I am not timid; I like excitement.

The world takes us at our own valuation. It believes in the man who believes in himself, but it has little use for the timid man: the one who is never certain of himself, who cannot rely on his own judgment, who craves advice from others, and is afraid to go ahead on his own account.

To the timid soul, nothing is possible.