Quotes About Courage

We've been conditioned to be incredibly avoidant. 'I'm afraid I'll be called a racist if I say something wrong,' is the familiar retort. Well, okay, that's scary and difficult, but staying silent, avoiding the issue, doesn't mean that racism goes away.

Change doesn't come from staying in your safe space.

It means so much to me to see Caitlyn Jenner coming out, just by being her authentic self, staying true to who she is, and just living her life.

It's about finding where you're comfortable with yourself and staying true to yourself no matter the circumstances.

Ability gets you so far, but having bottle and staying strong when you're getting pounded, staying in a game, that's a mental quality.

I'm always staying tough.

Success doesn't scare us. I think we have staying power.

I want to be someone who takes risks but also stays engaged by trying new things.

So we need people who will remain steadfast in any hardship and who have a high degree of resistance.

I said to de Lord, 'I'm goin' to hold steady on to you, an' I know you'll see me through.'

There was no indication of panic. The broken files marched back in steady step. The effort was nobly made and failed from the blows that could not be fended.

I was 25 when I'd told my parents that I was giving up steady work as an electrician to become an actor. They couldn't have been less enthusiastic if I'd proposed starting a commercial newt-breeding operation in the bathroom.

Somebody might try to steal your backpack, somebody might throw bread at you in the lunchroom. I was the kind of kid that if you did that, I wanted to fight.

I just have this very simple idea about the rebel spies in the opening crawl of A 'New Hope' who steal the plans for the Death Star.

I've always been ballsy. My dad is a blunt northerner, and maybe I've got a bit of that in me. I just kind of steam ahead.

The only way to get through the life I had was just to have a big head of steam and determination.

You've got to have steel in you somewhere.

You need nerves of steel if climbing aboard a rocket is your career path.

I was never afraid to go back to Pittsburgh and work in the steel mills.

Me being a skinny guy, I could crawl into the steel pit.

When you're no longer ill, and everyone's gotten over the fact that you've had cancer, that core of steel doesn't go away, and then I had to find other channels for it.

The price of toppling Gadhafi will be steep. But Libyans will topple him, and in doing so, they will bring down with him the castles of fear our dictators thought they had fortified.

We can't let fear steer the way, dictate our lives.

I've already had two stem cell transplants. Very rarely does somebody have a third, so I have to maintain my strength so I can go through this.