Quotes About Courage

I think I was a feminist before being born. I had a feminist chromosome somewhere.

Do you want Columbus to go across the ocean, or do you want to put a message in a bottle and hope that it lands somewhere? I'd rather have actual people be there. Whether they look like Americans or like the inhabitants of some other country, depends on who has the most drive.

I was, somewhere in the neighborhood of about 300 jumps.

I almost always do things that I like, in some form or fashion. Every once in awhile that means that I don't think the script is any good and I don't have any trust in the people, but the film is shooting in Sri Lanka, or somewhere like that, so I'm going.

I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

I mean, I get letters in the mail because I had a heart defect when I was one, I had surgeries and stuff. And so you get these letters in the mail that just, they are crazy, they are just like, yes, well our son is dealing with the same thing and we saw you on TV and I mean it is such a cool thing to inspire and kind of give hope.

If I'm going to be a caged bird, I'll sing the best song I can.

It was a kind of siren song that called me out to the front lines.

In future also, we would like to back films that can be considered slightly risky since they don't have song and dance.

Every battalion has its marching songs.

Not everybody is going to like your songs. But you probably wouldn't hang out with those people anyway.

To do the things that I did, I'm amazed that I had the audacity - like resigning from the Army and becoming a janitor and a songwriter.

It may not be the most popular but there is a place for it. I think about the kind of music I love, acoustic, melodic, and I guess it kind of took a bit of courage on my part to think I could be one of those songwriters.

Fear just crushes creativity, and if I let fear into the studio and into the songwriting, I was going to let it kill the artist inside of me.

A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again.

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

The single outstanding exception was the broad yet precise mandate communicated by the General Assembly in 1946 to prepare as soon as possible the Charter of Human Rights which the San Francisco Conference had not had the time or the courage to draw up.

I have born-again Christians in my family, and they are completely against abortion... Everybody's got to stop being afraid of it real soon. Who's going to do it if a woman's network doesn't? People are going to be dying.

I would advise any gay person that being out in the real sense can never happen too soon.

As soon as you are a woman with an opinion, and they don't like it, the haters will come out in full force.

Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone.

I know sooner or later I'll lose.

Sooner or later a man has simply got to do what he thinks is right, no matter what other people, or the courts, or his friends, or his enemies, or God himself may tell him.