Quotes About Courage

September 11 happened, and all my friends were like, 'Let's join the military!' and I was the only one who actually did.

Be a military flier or be in a band; those were the two hippest things I could imagine.

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

I think film can change lives. Doing 'Milk' changed mine, for sure. When I see that someone like Harvey Milk changed his life and the lives of many others in just eight years, I feel powerful. I go out of the cinema saying, 'Maybe there's something I can do, too.'

I was very lucky to hear the story of Harvey Milk, it was life-saving for me. I wanted to share it in case it helped others, but the story of one gay man isn't going to do it.

You can't push the envelope at 10,000 RPM and expect to come out smelling like a rose and feeling like a million bucks on the other side.

It could be if I fight in front of one person or one million people. It's still the same emotions.

When I think about doing something, I think: Will I survive a million out of a million times?

But I could never in a million years get up on a stage, ever. Even thinking about it makes me feel like fainting.

It's daunting; it's daunting doing something that you are not brilliant at in front of millions of people. But you can't sit back and say no to opportunity. You have to throw yourself in.

My biggest fear as a fighter is to be knocked out in front of millions of people. But after it actually happened, there's this calmness about you that says everything is OK.

Ali helped raise black people in this country out of mental slavery. The entire experience of being black changed for millions of people because of Ali.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

I think it's really important for everybody out there to speak their minds, and not be complicit and let fear back you into this corner where you just let everything go by. It's a responsibility.

I like to get in the mindset of the honey badger when I go into contact. There's no doubts, no fears. If you can do that as a human, you're killin' it.

Just knowing you can get into a cage and do that is part of how the mindset of a fighter can be applied to pretty much any situation really.

Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.

On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.

It requires guts to leave the chair of chief minister.

I get called an adrenaline junkie every other minute, and I'm just fine with that.

Fear is an element that prevents us from letting go. We're fearful that if we let go we'll have nothing else to cling to.

One day, when you face this beast alone with your courage intact, your eyes kind, untroubled (even as no one sees them), out of your smile will bloom a flower. And those who love you will behold you across ten thousand worlds of birth and dying.

You need to have the gift of non-fear within you in order to be able to offer it to others.