Quotes About Courage

I'm not naive enough to believe it's in our nature to step outside our comfort zones.

Leaders who can push themselves beyond their comfort zones and understand how to harness the power of reverse innovation have the chance to become the next great visionaries.

People have to be pushed out of their comfort zones to be able to see things for what they are.

Professionally, I made my first film at 20 in a war zone in Kosovo.

We have to start encouraging people to step out of their comfort zones and start doing new things. Anything anybody does new, there are a bunch of naysayers.

Very few people know someone who would voluntarily go into a war zone to protect a person he has never met. I know 1,000 of them, and I am proud that they are part of our team.

As an actor, you always want to try something you haven't done before. For me, the uncomfortable zone is the one to enter.

When I was younger, I had such awful, poisonous things written about me: male critics likening me to unattractive animals, and suggesting I should be in a zoo.

Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally.

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

I not only bow to the inevitable, I am fortified by it.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequence of any misfortune.

What cannot be avoided, t'were childish weakness to lament or fear.

Boys, this is only a game. But it's like life in that you will be dealt some bad hands. Take each hand, good or bad, and don't whine and complain, but play it out. If you're men enough to do that, God will help and you will come out well.

The person who wants to make it has to sweat. There are no short cuts. And you've got to have the guts to be hated.

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight to the blood.

It is much easier to do and die than it is to reason why.

A = r + p (or Adventure equals risk plus purpose.)

Trust in God and do something.

James Drummond Burns