Quotes About Courage

You had to be tough to survive in my neighborhood.

I love putting myself in sink-or-swim situations. You realize the human spirit is built to survive.

'The Will To Survive' is a great track.

I don't have shame around where I've been or what I've done to survive to get to where I'm at in my life. When you don't have shame around something, it can't hurt you.

The only way to survive is to get back up.

My strength of character is a privilege. I can do anything to survive. I don't break easily.

I think my grandfather had the most incredible strength of character to be able to survive the war and I hope that that is one of the great strengths that he has passed through to my father and through to me.

I've been able to survive a lot of things, and I am especially interested in survivor stories.

I am ready to do whatever I need in order to survive.

In a way, J.F.K. was the high point of the American dream. In order to go to the moon and back, all we did was say we could - and we did.

I want to be the first. If they'd let me go to the moon, I'd crawl all the way to Cape Kennedy just to do it. I'd like to go to the moon, but I don't want to be the second man to go there.

No matter what your age, gender, politics, nationality, social or financial standing, every single person inhabiting the planet Earth has the same reaction to him: 'Holy crap, Buzz Aldrin, you went to the moon!'

Government is really successful when it's willing to make big, bold objectives, like, 'We're going to get to the moon.' But without leaders with big ideas, we get stuck.

I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.

Today is the day to break free from the prison of the person you know yourself to be and step into a self you have yet to know. Will it be comfortable? No, but do it anyway.

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex. I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.

This is the problem with the world today: Nobody wants to take risks, to risk being themselves.

I say to people today, 'You must be prepared if you believe in something. If you believe in something, you have to go for it. As individuals, we may not live to see the end.'

If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.

I think our chances are not looking great today but the only way to fail for me is just not to try.

My mother gave birth to me on the floor of our apartment in Mecca with only my toddler sister to help her because my father was at work and no male guardian was available to take her to a hospital.

In 'The Condemned,' if you saw the movie, that's all me; I'll go toe to toe with anyone in an action movie.

I've had one fall that I kind of hurt my toe pretty badly because I slammed into one of the set pieces. But, you know, you just get up and keep going. The adrenaline's pumping, and you just carry on!