Quotes About Courage

Georges is one of the best guys that's ever stepped in the Octagon. That's actually the main reason I want to fight him. I look for a challenge. To be the best, you've gotta beat the best. And Georges St-Pierre is the best.

It's real easy to talk about stepping in the ring, but once you do actually step in the ring, it takes a lot of courage and mental fortitude to do what we do.

For the sexuality thing, I really feel like the reason I speak so blunt about it is because I held it in for so long. I never told my mom. I never told my family. I kept it to myself. Now, I'm happy with who I am. Either you accept it, or you don't. There's a lot of rappers out there that's like that, but no one's stepping up.

When I'm challenged, I grow. I never want to be in a situation where I'm not challenged and not afraid. One of my favorite feelings is stepping into a film and knowing that I'm a little bit afraid of what I have to accomplish.

It was a big step, to go from not talking to people to stepping on to a stage. That's when I felt the most comfortable, because I could do anything I wanted to and say anything I wanted to, even if people didn't laugh.

Benson is a champion. I'd be lying to you if I said I wasn't scared to death inside this cage, stepping into the cage with that monster.

I would love to see an athlete live their life in an authentic way, not feel that they have to hide, not feel that they have to be afraid, or live with shame - all the other things that go with being a closeted athlete. No human being should have to walk that path. But there is that fear of stepping forward.

My role models are every single woman that steps inside of the cage - inside of an octagon, inside a ring, or on a mat - and proves to themselves and to others that they can do what they need to do. Those are my heroes. Those are my sheroes. Those are the people that I look up to.

There are, I believe, three steps to overcoming fear: name it, normalise it, socialise it.

Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular.

You can't be nervous when you know your steps.

Anytime somebody climbs up those steps into the ring, they have a heart.

When you are under pressure, you make the bold steps faster; you don't make the bold steps slower.

While the United States has often taken the wrong path, it has rarely failed to demonstrate - at least in the long run - the courage to reverse its steps.

One of the cool things about 'Patti Cake$' is that it is about someone that is against stereotype.

Spring is here, even in London N.1, and they can't stop you from enjoying it," he wrote in April 1946. "The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun, and neither the dictators, nor the bureaucrats, deeply as they disapprove of the process, are able to prevent it.

right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.

I mention all this to all of you for a reason. I want to make sure all of you—especially the more wimpy, compliant, and fuddle-brained of your lot—get the message here: DON'T LET THE BASTARDS WEAR YOU DOWN

Believing you cannot do it, does not make it so, believing you can do it must be your only option.

Secret #24 While some people run fast toward Gold Medals, many others run even faster from German Shepherds.

Great hopes make great men.

Despair gives courage to a coward.

He that hopes no good fears no ill.