Quotes About Courage

I feel most alive, most electric with faith, breath, and courage, when I think of God as a current that runs through all that is. Not by will or by choice. Not as a benediction but because there are laws even God must obey.

If the lead line in my obituary is 'She once tweeted that the president is a white supremacist,' I will see my life as a professional disappointment.

Everybody in life has something that they get knocked down on. The object lesson here is not that you get knocked down - it is that you get up.

I liked Live and Let Die, where money was no object.

When I left Tottenham for China i knew I would be further away but my main objective was to play because I wasn't playing and I decided to move on.

I always felt a weird obligation to be adventurous.

With each thing that you do, all the fears in life and safeguards block out, or obscure, who you truly are. I think that just a glimpse of the person ever comes through in most material.

You just never give up, no matter how hard the challenges are, and observe this world with a healthy dose of criticism and don't just follow the herd like somebody else might do.

One thing I've learned from my parents and from observing all the artists I've been lucky enough to grow up around is that you've got to be brave.

I don't fear death. I'm not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be.

I'm frightened a lot. I feel like it's caused me a lot of obstacles.

Every walk that I do, there's obstacles in the way. There's always somebody or something that comes across negative, but I live for that sort of thing.

I felt like an apostle of the obvious and people imagined that I was doing something daring.

I'm never scared to ask a question or state the obvious, y'know.

I always rise to the occasion for that big bet.

Taking occasional risks, I'm a strong proponent of that.

Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.

I've been shot at on numerous occasions.

As any fighter does, we all go down. Very few get up. I've done it on multiple occasions.

Firefighting inherently is a dangerous occupation.

Sometimes all you have left to win with is the knowledge of why you're taking the beating and the realization that nobody else is going to save you from it.

Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way. p.207

No heart is so hard as the timid heart.

Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.