Quotes About Courage

He stands up for himself. He's a fighter. That's who my father is.

I came to New York in 1986. My father didn't think it was a good idea. I didn't know how I found it, but I went to Hunter College. I had no money and I couldn't speak English.

I'm not afraid of too many things, and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.

When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.

One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too.

I never exploited my father's role in helping Jews avoid the concentration camps...

I never complain. I chose the road of fighting with the Ukrainian oligarchy in 1996, and have paid for this with my freedom and that of my husband, my father and my close friends.

These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America's founding fathers.

My father was a bullfighter.

I quit my job in the bank when I was 19. I took a chance. I went to Milan to study opera and singing. My father really supported me economically.

My father always said, 'Malala will be free as a bird.'

We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.

She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.

What we should really fear is not failure but the heart that is no longer brave enough to take risks and embrace challenges

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger.

You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.

Fight back! Whenever you are offered violence, fight back! The aggressor does not fear the law, so he must be taught to fear you. Whatever the risk, and at whatever the cost, fight back!

We have not to fear anything, except fear itself.

I fear nothing and I regret less.

Fear tolerated is faith contaminated.

Why should I fear? I am on a Royal Mission. I am in the service of the King of kings.