Quotes About Courage

I've done enough running from monsters. It's time to do some chasing.

You can't have self-pity. At some point, you have to say, 'These are the cards I've been dealt, and I'm going to play them.'

Some men are willing to die for their faith, but they are not willing to fully live for it. Christ both lived and died for us.

Some people need safety nets. Some people need two safety nets. I've grown up with no safety nets around me.

If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret any punishment I may incur.

If I'm too strong for some people, that's their problem.

You should have a fear of some things. That doesn't mean it incapacitates you from your ability to figure out a way to deal with it.

I've lived a very colorful life, and I've said some things, But not once have I taken them back, and I've never apologized for them - and I won't.

You're born with some things inside you that will allow you to lead, but I think you have to take the bull by the horns. You have to want that leadership position, and then there are things you can do to develop that.

I misfired and said some things in the past about people, namely John Mayer. And I didn't have the guts to apologize.

My mother at the age of 65 decided she was going to run for mayor. She had never run for public office, and she decided she wanted to try and do some things for the community.

People ask me if I have some kind of death wish, to keep saying the things I do. The answer is no: I would like to keep living. However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.

I've done some things I've been scared to see. But you can kind of feel when you've got a hit on your hands.

I just think it's amazing if I could help anyone to feel like they can open up or that they realise some things about themselves and realise they're not alone, then amazing. I've kind of done my job.

You're not going to scare me into being somebody I don't want to be.

But I think it's intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.

I don't have to put on shoulder pads and run out there and let somebody hit on me a little bit.

There are quite enough sheep already - be a shepherd: be somebody who's bold and who leads.

Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.

Crazy may not be the one who says the sun is the center of the solar system, the Earth is round, and someday people might fly. It may be those who laugh at such words whose minds are lost.

I wanted to show North Korean people that they have hope, and they can be free someday, like myself.

I'm not a professional. Yet somehow, I manage to get away with it.

I always knew that I would have to make it on my own somehow.

I think making a great action movie is one of the hardest cinematic endeavors. By definition, smart characters avoid action. Smart people don't go down dark alleys, but if you're making an action movie and you want to have an action sequence, somehow you have to get that character into that dangerous situation.