Quotes About Courage

A journey into space is the greatest adventure I can imagine.

To die in battle would be my greatest joy.

I'm a risk-taker. Most of my career has not been a joyful experience, but it has been challenging. I like the dangers.

He that fears death loses the joys of life.

The first time that I was elected I was called the Judas Iscariot of the black community because I took a stand that was inconsistent of cutting across the grain.

I long to play a judge. I long to play a lesbian woman. I long to play a councilman, someone with some chutzpah.

I always tell friends you can't judge your success by someone else's. You can't be afraid to fail.

I don't care how people judge me.

You don't have to be scared of what other people are thinking. You don't need to feel judged by other people.

Being yourself, or being judged as yourself, is really scary.

I think sometimes, especially 'The Bachelor,' feels like you're being judged. You play it safe, so to speak. I've never played it safe and I think that made for a really good season.

My first job out of law school was as one of two women assistant U.S. attorneys in an office of 63 U.S. attorneys and the first woman to do criminal work appearing only before male judges. Scared? Every day of my life.

For years, I didn't give interviews because I was scared of people judging me or thinking I was arrogant.

Acting lets you be in a place where no one's judging you.

It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.

I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.

I want to jump into rivers off of high ridges when I'm 75.

If you're going off a 90-foot jump, you can't say: 'Oh, I don't want to do this now.' You're going no matter what.

And I don't want to jump out of an airplane - I've done that.

I definitely try to live my life in a very fearless manner, but there are no other sports that you jump from a three-story building and land on your hands! Diving is a lot like life. You just have to trust in what you know and allow it to happen.

On a dirt bike, when you're sizing up a jump, you can't have any second thoughts. You have to fully commit. If you don't, a lot of things can go wrong.

I don't like taking physical risks at all. I take a lot of emotional risks, and I don't feel like I need to get on a bike or a horse or jump off of anything ever.

I've never seen anything that I didn't want to jump off of.

If you can jump, you can jump.