Quotes About Courage

The toughest situations help you understand your true strength and that's how it has been for me always.

My mother's the toughest person I know.

Dolph has got to be one of the toughest men to put on a pair of boots.

I chose to climb Everest because I thought it was the toughest thing to do. In May 2011, I made the decision and by March 2012 I had started training for it.

I started flying because I had a fear of it early on. I figured if I learned to fly, I would understand better what was happening and started taking lessons in the late 1950's, once I had made some money on tour.

I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour.

And when I perform on my own tour, I have to talk myself into going out on that stage every single night.

If you weren't a risk-taker, you were always going to be a step behind. You could be the best cyclist in the world, but if you weren't a risk-taker, you weren't going to win the Tour de France.

To build an empire - or win seven Tour de Frances in a row - you must have a Lone Star-size ego and a dash of megalomania.

I still look back and think, 'How did I win the Tour, going day to day under that pressure?'

Even in my really bad, drugged-out days, I didn't go away. I still toured, still did interviews. I never gave up the fight. That's why I'm who I am today, because I didn't leave. And I think I made the right choice.

I was near the Niagara Falls where I was shivering and delivering my lines. It was minus 17 degrees and I had gone there without proper thermal wear. Tourists looked at me with horror thinking I had gone nuts.

I'm going to go down swinging... I'm sure as heck not going to go home and say I had a bad tournament.

When I started I was pretty well the only Aboriginal player who was playing tournaments.

Do one thing today that scares you - and you already know what that is! - and go do it. Even if you just make one step toward it, it will help you look at the world differently.

I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.

We humans have a powerful instinct to flee from peril. It takes a special kind of courage, a deep sense of duty, and extraordinary character to overcome these impulses and - for the sake of others - to run toward the danger.

I have many queer friends who I consider to be heroes of mine, and they feel the same way toward me.

It is not a fun process to run full-tilt toward guys who are running toward you full-tilt.

I have tested my nerve by reaching a little too closely toward a lengthy alligator on the Gulf Coast and a saucer-sized tarantula in a Houston car park.

The only time I had what you would call life-threatening fear was when I was on the Moon. Towards the end of our stay, we got excited and we were going to do the high jump, and I jumped and fell over backwards. That was a scary time, because if the backpack got broken, I would have had it. But everything held together.

I came across the idea of running towards the things that frighten you. Once you go and do it, you realise that the fear of it is far more powerful than actually doing it.

Focus on what you want to do. Don't be scared to try stuff. You only live once. Get your mind towards what you want to do and you'll achieve it. It makes it fun. You gotta take risks at times. Risks pay off.

If you don't go towards the thing you fear, you won't be able to say you lived.