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Quotes About Courage

I'm a risk-taker. It's where my passion lies, so I don't want to play it safe. That means I'm going to fail sometimes.
~ Hilary Swank
I like my nuts," Mooner said. "I don't want them cut off. I'd be, like, nutless then.
~ Janet Evanovich
I am always jumping into the sausage grinder and deciding, even before I'm half ground, that I don't want to be a sausage after all.
~ Jessamyn West
So one thing I want to say about life is don't be scared and don't hang back, and most of all, don't waste it.
~ Joan Blos
To quit smoking, you must first want to quit, but then you must also do the quitting
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
People want to see other people who have 'non-negotiables,' things for which they're willing to say, 'This is it' we take our stand right here.' That's a leadership quality which people respect.
~ John Ashcroft
He wants worth who dares not praise a foe.
~ John Dryden
At sixteen I get drafted. When I read the draft notice, I cry. Not because I'm a coward - I'm not afraid of anyone. But I don't want to kill or be killed.
~ Klaus Kinski
Some people do want to stand on the rooftop and scream out their story. Others are cowering in the corner, or sitting with a blank face in class, and not knowing how to tell their story.
~ Lauren Myracle
Do one thing every day you don't want to do.
~ Mark Twain
I just hope when my body goes, or when my mind does, I have the guts to end it the way Hemingway did. I don't want anybody wiping drool off my chin.
~ Paul Newman
Poems are the 'daredevil' of writing because a poem will say what nobody else wants to say.
~ Ralph Fletcher
That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.
~ Ray Bradbury
The one thing that's hurt in my career is people saying I don't want to come out of Manchester to fight people.
~ Ricky Hatton
If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. It's called do or die.
~ Steve Lacy
Brave, bold people, these are what we want.
~ Swami Vivekananda
I have a number of famous quotes, and one of them is, if you get knocked down, get back up again. I don't really feel like I want to let anything ultimately defeat me.
~ Trip Hawkins
I'd be glad to go out on a limb with those Who want nothing beyond what the wind bestows, Were I not bound to roots, dug in deep to bear Never being done grasping for light and air
~ X. J. Kennedy
You can bite me if you want. I want you to.
~ Amanda Hocking
Better off dead than giving in; not taking what you want.
~ Carol Ann Duffy
Do ye want me?" he whispered. "Sassenach, will ye take me - and risk the man that I am, for the sake of the man ye knew?
~ Diana Gabaldon
Willem, I suspect deep down you know exactly why you're here, exactly what you want, but you're unwilling to the wanting, let alone the having. Because both of those propositions are terrifying.
~ Gayle Forman
I said you were a man of peace. I want you to know I took immense crap for that.
~ George W. Bush
There. Maybe if you're lucky, you'll get a scar! That's what you want, isn't it?
~ J. K. Rowling