Quotes About Courage

If things don't work out the way you want, hold your head up high and be proud. And try again. And again. And again!

Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters.

Remarkable work often comes from making choices when everyone else feels as though there is no choice.

Start before you're ready.

In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard on the football field: Don't flinch, don't fall; hit the line hard.

Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to being a winner

Hire disrespectful people.

I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

I could stay making nice safe BBC movies for the rest of my life, so I decided to risk it. It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.

I am tough, and sometimes I tell it like it is. Tough love can work wonders.

If you're not frightened that you might fail, you'll never do the job. If you're frightened, you'll work like crazy.

There's an old saying that when it gets tough the tough get going. You have to work your way through these things.

There is in Ammiel Alcalay's work an unabashed tenderness for the world as it is, and that makes him courageous, different.

The only people who think writing is easy are people who don't write. Writing's a difficult, courageous act. Bravery is required, as well as a great deal of slogging along. A lot of our work is work.

Courage doesn't mean being free from fear; it means learning to work through fear and speak even when we are afraid.

You long to jump off, but you just can't work up the nerve, so you tell yourself you're content to look at the view.

Whether you do your work with notes or without them, do it courageously, earnestly, with devotion; with a glad sense of the greatness of it, and a full consecration of every force and faculty to it.

Be risky at work. Be safe with your investments.

If you are wiling to do something that might not work, you are closer to being an artist.

I wish I were brave, although I try. I work too hard and don't play enough. Too much work ethic, not enough 'fun'.

The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.

You've got to believe in yourself, you've got to have a very clear vision, and you've got have the fire in the belly and go out and not be shy with working because it takes a lot of work.

Fear does its best work in isolation. Courage wears the face of your ability to love and be loved. Breakthrough happens when you discover your self-worth had nothing to do with what you looked like.