Quotes About Courage

I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.

If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.

If I was gay, why would I hide it?

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

If you love someone who is ruining his or her life because of faulty thinking, and you don't do anything about it because you are afraid of what others might think, it would seem that rather than being loving, you are in fact being heartless.

I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn't really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.

My mother, Laura Sumner, had cerebral palsy. She was born absolutely fine, but after about three days, she started having convulsions that left her with a condition that would confine her to a wheelchair her entire life.

I gave myself permission to feel and experience all of my emotions. In order to do that, I had to stop being afraid to feel. In order to do that, I taught myself to believe that no matter what I felt or what happened when I felt it, I would be okay.

I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King's daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.

What would you do if you knew you could not fail?

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.

I really try to live my life a little more, in ways I would hold back from previously.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

Look at somebody like Margaret Sanger, who was married young and had kids but then left her husband and wound up living a kind of single life as she got into the founding of what would become Planned Parenthood.

I do know that detachment is important. A surgeon can't be weeping into the open wound.

I don't know how it plays in San Francisco. But I can tell you I came out, during a reelection campaign, in Indiana, while Mike Pence was the governor. And I wound up winning reelection by 80 percent.

I learned to assemble a rifle in the dark and was trained as a sniper so that I could hit the center of the target time after time. As it happened, I never did get into actual combat, but that didn't prevent my being severely wounded. I almost lost both my feet as a result of a bombing attack on Jerusalem.

In the battle of Kunu-ri, more than 5,000 American soldiers were killed, wounded or taken as prisoners of war. Ninety percent of my unit was killed.

It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.

I'd like to be a wounded leading man. Instead of a pillar of strength, I'd be the scared one.

I went to Walter Reed hospital a couple of times to visit wounded soldiers, kids with no legs and one arm. You start to question some things.