Quotes About Courage

My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.

It's hard and sometimes it's scary. It still amazes my mother. I went home for Christmas one year and there were fans all over the front lawn, hoping to see me.

Frustration is the mother of risk.

Both of our daughters, Debbie and Bonnie, are also cancer survivors.

My mother is a survivor who's had a lot of things happen in her life that have been very trying.

On December 17, 1984, I had surgery to remove two inches of my left lung due to pneumonia. After two hours of surgery the doctors told my mother I had AIDS.

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting.

It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

Women are weak, but mothers are strong.

In France it was Joan of Arc; in the Crimea it was Florence Nightingale; in the deep south there was Rosa Parks; in India there was Mother Teresa and in Florida there was Katherine Harris.

My mother is a special story. She went through so much to bring us up, four men at home, especially when our country was going through really difficult times.

Sorry is the fool who ever underestimates my mother.

The best lesson that I've learned from my mother is that she just never accepted no for an answer and I think that's something that has stayed with me.

Somehow or another, my mother taught me to push through my fear, always. Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Ali's daughter is fighting and Joe Frazier's daughter is fighting as well.

To mothers who are raising their children without a father in the home, I promise you that as you speak of Jesus Christ, you will feel the power of heaven blessing you.

My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and do laundry. Hang up sheets.

You are far less likely to soil your pants and cry for your mother if you're prepared to defend yourself.

Cindy Sheehan is one tough mother. And nothing you say or anyone else is gonna slow her down.

My mother is the bravest human being I've ever come across.

My mother's gifts of courage to me were both large and small. The latter are woven so subtly into the fabric of my psyche that I can hardly distinguish where she stops and I begin.

That was the fun of acting, being a blank canvas you could transform into the character - Indian princess, 20s vamp, Mother Courage, Oxford don, 94-year-old wife.

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised.

You do stand alone sometimes. But my mother stood by me through all this.