Quotes About Courage

No problem is too big to run away from.

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

I suffer from bronchiectasis, an obstructive lung disease, and have a little osteoporosis, too.

If you're going to have to swallow a frog, you don't want to have to look at that sucker too long!

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

Never stand and take a charge... charge them too.

It's never too late to reclaim your inner diva and reclaim your inner strength.

It's never too late in life to have a genuine adventure.

I would rather stop too soon than too late.

When I walk up on that shore in Florida, I want millions of those AARP sisters and brothers to look at me and say, 'I'm going to go write that novel I thought it was too late to do. I'm going to go work in Africa on that farm that those people need help at. I'm going to adopt a child. It's not too late, I can still live my dreams.'

Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism.

Too many people focus on writing what they think they should write, what should be in a song, what radio would want.

Too many people have lost their lives, particularly in the African-American community, for the right to vote. I stand in their shadows and I am standing on their shoulders.

We live and die by Lions Only because not too many people can go through the struggle of life the way my brother and I have and still be on top and make it as far as we are making it right now.

The human being is very resourceful. When you fight for survival, you don't think much; you just do. If you think too much, you sink.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.

I have too much to live for to allow a bunch of cowards to take my joy. I refuse to give them my joy.

If I'm going for a shot, then I've just resolved to go for it and not think too much about it.

People who think too much before they act don't act too much.

I believe one is not going to get anywhere by sitting and planning too much. The point is to keep doing, and what will happen will happen.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

I always took a fight; I always took everybody. I fought everybody.

I'd taken the bull by the horns by liberating myself and creating a career. It took guts - it was scary and chancy - but they discounted me as empty-headed: some little piece of fluff without any brain that happened to come along.

It took me a long time to learn how to be brave enough to put myself out there and try everything, no matter how strange or silly. If I can impart that same wisdom to other folks - no matter what age - it would be an honor.