Quotes About Courage

While victimhood in America is exalted, I don't think our veterans should join those ranks.

I would just say there is one misperception of our veterans, and that is they are somehow damaged goods. I don't buy it.

Veterans often need medical and psychological assistance, and often, for them, it is hard to ask for help, but we want them to know they are not alone.

Military veterans and the sacrifices they have made for our country carry a status we all should appreciate and honor.

Veterans have stood up for us.

The thing about veterans, they know how to challenge the establishment. They're not afraid to take on the people in control. They're not afraid to put people over politics or over their political party.

I hope that on Veterans Day people think about those who protect us from the evils out there.

Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.

It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

I go where the sound of thunder is.

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

You can get away with making some extremely bold statements by Trojan Horsing them into a narrative via comedy.

We've become the party that wants to appease everyone and no one. And I think the only way that the Democrats become viable again is if we have people who have moral clarity and courage to say what they need to say and fight for what they need to fight for.

Now when I travel, I'm more adventurous. If I find myself creeping back into that 'not going to leave the hotel' vibe, I take baby steps, like having a nice dinner on my own or getting my nails done.

I left Columbia in the mid-'60s. I had a guaranteed contract for, like, $100,000 a year. And I just let it go. And I wasn't a rich man. There were a lot of bad vibes around the whole thing.

When you're used to being healthy and strong and vibrant and everything and then - bang - overnight you're desperately ill, it's frightening.

I promise you that when the circumstances arise where I have a difference on policy or on presentation, I have - I can tell you in my heart, I know - I would have no hesitation, were I privileged to be vice president, to walk into the president's office, close the door, and share my heart.

Until there are no more hate crimes, no more vicious bullying and ugly slurs, whenever a person comes out - whether that person is a celebrity or a 'nobody' - it should be celebrated like the triumph of courage it is.

A lot of people want to see a last fight, but I am now engaged in a different fight - one that is much harder, much more vicious, and much more important to me. I am fighting for democracy and fighting for Ukraine.

I became a war hero before going on to critical acclaim as a professional victim.

I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.

The psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has shown great courage, in the face of spiteful vested interests, in demonstrating how easy it is for people to concoct memories that are entirely false but which seem, to the victim, every bit as real as true memories.

By not coming forward (about rape), you make yourself a victim forever.

I always want to give the victim a voice.