Quotes About Courage

I said [to my mom], "I want to go to the parachute regiment." She said, "Whew, that's tough. But okay, I understand."

When I found out I had cancer, I just said one thing: 'I want to hold on to life' and that changed everything for me.

You have to have fear to take risks - and I want to at least try.

Don't try to please everyone. There are countless people who don't want one, haven't heard of one or actively hate it. So what?

What I learned: Shun nonbelievers. Ignore critics. Do your best for people who want to dance with you.

If you have a book to write, write it. If you want to record an album, record it. No need to wait for someone in a cubicle halfway across the country to decide if you're worthy.

Working in any country where you want to talk about the kind of issues that other people don't want to talk about is difficult.

Our blood don't run. Sometimes we want to. Sometimes we ought to. But we don't ever run from anyone or anything.

Leaders don't convince people to follow them. Leaders walk forward alone and those who want to go down their path decide to follow.

One of the things I'm most proud of about myself is my ability to fail in front of the world. You have to have that attitude when you want to experiment in art, in music, in writing, or in fashion.

If you feel safe then you can go wherever you want to go as an actor.

I'm a big believer that if there's something you really want to do, don't walk away because of the deal.

If he wants me broken, then I will have to be whole.

Many a time comes when we want to interpret our weakness and cowardice as forgiveness and renunciation.

Bold words and bolder deeds are what we want. Awake, awake, great ones! The world is burning with misery. Can you sleep?

And if I'm running away from something, I try to make myself face it and overcome that initial fear. As a director, I don't think it's possible to make a movie that you really don't want to make.

I'm intrigued and drawn to people who know exactly who they are, who know what they want, who live life on their own terms.

To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have to give in to this. Sometimes, you say things people don't want to hear.

Because no man wants to be a coward in front of a cheese.

What your soldier wants - really, really wants - is no-one shooting back at him.

YOU FEAR TO DIE? "It's not that I don't want... I mean, I've always...it's just that life is a habit that's hard to break.

I want to see you game, boys, I want to see you brave and manly, and I also want to see you gentle and tender.

When I'm 75 years old, I want to say that I chased my dream. I didn't let other people's opinions dictate what I have in my book of my life.

I've done about every kind of fishing you can imagine, but I've never noodled. And the reason I've never noodled is because I don't want to get bit by a water moccasin. I'm just too afraid of snakes.