Quotes About Courage

If you want to be a legend you have to fight with legends.

The one thing I learned is to just give everything a shot. You don't want to live in regret.

If we want to get to the next level, let's take a risk and try something different.

If you like something, rock it. If you want to rock a cape every day, go for it.

If you want to do something, go for it -you've got nothing to lose.

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors.

If you want to be a different fish, jump out of school.

I don't have to be what you want me to be.

Who would have thought it would be possible to run across Canada on one leg, eh? I wanted to try the impossible and show that it could be done.

When I first posted pictures of me braless, there were so many different reactions. I could have been frightened and hide, but I didn't. I wanted people's prejudices to disappear.

Growing up, I wanted to be a musician. My mother, in typical Filipino-mom fashion, would always make me go up in front of people at parties to sing. Back then, as a kid, I was mortified. In retrospect, I see that doing that as a child helped me get over my fear of being in front of people.

I've always kind of just had a big personality and a voice that I wanted heard.

I wanted something different; I wanted something that challenged me and that pushed me further. Then this idea of climbing Mount Everest came to my mind. It stuck in my head for days. Someone told me I couldn't do it, and that really annoyed me.

I wanted to choose somewhere public, because I was scared of the KGB.

Wanting to do it was much more powerful than the fright.

I've never understood why some people hesitate before diving into unfamiliar tasks or activities. I couldn't imagine wanting more instructions about anything.

Part of me has certainly been motivated by wanting to take a stand against the restrictions that made Mother give up so much.

When I was a kid, I would do stupid things on my bike. I'd jump any ramp, I'd jump over people, I'd jump over things - always crashing, never hurting myself badly but always wanting to take physical risks.

An injured lion still wants to roar.

I have not yet begun to fight!

In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.

William Tecumseh Sherman

No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.