Quotes About Courage

Every time I run, it's with the mindset that if I die at this race it's OK.

Three things prompt men to a regular discharge of their duty in time of action: natural bravery, hope of reward, and fear of punishment.

Youth is the time when hearts are large, And stirring wars Appeal to the spirit which appeals in turn To the blade it draws.

Fear is always with us, but we just don't have time for it. Not Now!

Most of us have just learned to exercise our survival muscle. It's time to build our victory muscle.

Be courageous and face this moment in time consciously and with all the discernment and clarity within your power.

Nothing will ever take away the power and resolve and fearlessness of the great city of Boston. We will get through this. It will take time. But we will get through this.

Unless you have a huge ego, I think it requires a tremendous amount of bravery to keep putting yourself out there, knowing that you will get rejected most of the time.

Hope' wins over 'Experience' every time.

I don't like to be afraid. I'm afraid every day, all the time.

I wish I had more guts when I was younger because then I would've said things to people's faces instead of just running away all the time.

Each time you stay present with fear and uncertainty, you're letting go of a habitual way of finding security and comfort.

If I was on the air and was just kind of a plain-vanilla personality that took the safe road and the safe way trying to please all of the people all of the time, I'd been gone in two weeks.

He who bravely endures evils, in time reaps the reward.

Like Lyndon Johnson, President Obama understands that timidity in a time of troubles is a prescription for failure.

Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it.

I always felt like my future was at stake every time I stepped on stage and that was kind of hair-raising. At some point I just went, don't be frightened, you can't do anything wrong, it's your show.

My preference would have been to not go back on the air after 911, at all until the time felt right but that wasn't an option.

It is for us and our time...to say the right makes might.

I knew all the time I was going to get through the war. It was completely irrational, a silly idea, but I was not going to lie down and get myself killed. I was going to get out of it.

I did my homework, of course, by inhaling as much literature as was available to find, so that when it was time to shoot I could hopefully exhale [ Harriet Tubman ].

As strange as it may sound, I think I'm a lot more at peace with the fact that you can't guarantee you're going to be all right [at] any time.

I don't have the courage not to write all the time.

I didn't come out and pay a really painful price often, to be LGBT, to not claim my sexuality at the same time. It's not all right with me to not talk about it so I don't make anybody nervous.