Quotes About Courage

Sometimes, anonymous sources, when merely stating opinions or running a smear campaign, are certainly cowards.

Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.

I just don't see anonymous sources as fair against a candidate. I think if someone has a real concern, they should come out and say it.

I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx.

Well, I've been politically involved for a really long time. Growing up in the segregated South, it was a very painful experience for me to live through the open racism of the time.

As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are.

Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that.

I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!

Nelson Mandela was an outstanding leader and a mentor for me. I was in South Africa at the time he was released. I was in South Africa when he was inaugurated as the first president.

To show that a comedian on stage in India talking about sanitation or in South Africa talking about HIV and AIDS awareness, if you follow the joke into their lives, you can see that, like, oh, these things aren't just contrived in joke books. This is real life. I think the best comedians have that bravery and courage to say, Oh, this is what it is.

During the worst days of apartheid, we turned to the church for hope and courage as we fought a righteous struggle for a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist, just, and prosperous South Africa.

I was held up at gunpoint a month after I won Miss South Africa.

I'd been to South Africa during the Seventies, when it was definitely not kosher to go there. I felt that the best thing to do was to be a missionary and tell people what was going on in their own country because censorship was so dreadful.

The people of South Carolina support conservatives who are trying to push real change, and the people of South Carolina expect their presidential candidates to back them up when they show courage.

South Dakota was a place where you could take risks. You could break barriers and get away with it.

I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.

Many may look at me and see mostly what I have lost. I struggle to speak, my eyesight's not great, my right arm and leg are paralyzed, and I left a job I loved representing southern Arizona in Congress.

My mother was born in Latvia. She and most of her family fled from the capital city of Riga in 1944 with the final approach of the Soviet army.

When you launch in a rocket, you're not really flying that rocket. You're just sort of hanging on.

Be exactly who you are. You can fit in any space you see yourself in. Be fearless.

In the 19th Century people were looking for the Northwest Passage. Ships were lost and brave people were killed, but that doesn't mean we never went back to that part of the world again, and I consider it the same in space exploration.

Spaceflight, especially in the Mercury spacecraft, clearly wasn't going to be much like flying an airplane.

Being first outside the spacecraft would bring much more responsibility, and I really wasn't looking for that.

I think that people live in safe spaces these days; they don't want to deal with the controversy and the drama.