Quotes About Courage

What I do know is that writing is the thing I am best at, and I don't have the stomach, the ability, the strength or the courage to enter the political arena. And I think writing can be a political act, if only to let those people accountable know they are being watched. Literature can be a conscience.

I feel what I feel. If I wanna cry, I'm gonna cry - regardless of who watches me.

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

This show has shown me how to throw a punch. But watching my future sister-in-law go through breast cancer has also shown me how to take one.

There's a reason there are 50,000 cop shows and firefighter shows: Watching them is cool.

For years, I was watching other people have so much fun playing out their version of authorship, like Louis C.K. and Larry David. As I watched them do their thing, I began to pine for the days when I had a lot less expected of me and, often, a lot more creative freedom. The courage that those guys have is always captivating to me.

Don't be a fish; be a frog. Swim in the water and jump when you hit ground.

You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.

I was scared of water, so I learnt swimming.

I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash... If anything, that's all giving me power.

Noah walked with God; he didn't only preach righteousness, he acted it. He went through water and didn't melt. He breasted the current of the popular opinion of his day, scorning alike the hatred and ridicule of the scoffers who mocked at the thought of there being but one way of salvation.

Once, I was coming back from school, and there was this guy who was eve-teasing me and my friend. I had a Milton water bottle that I flung it at his face. My dad told me if you are in a crowded place and a guy eve-teases, you should make noise. I did exactly that and got people on the road to beat up the guy.

The Black Panther Party stood up and said that we don't care what anybody says. We don't think fighting fire with fire is best; we think you fight fire with water best.

While I can't walk on water, I can certainly wobble on whisky.

Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.

I nearly drowned in a park pond when I was six years old and I've been terrified of water ever since.

I hadn't realized quite how extraordinary Charles Lindbergh's achievement was in flying the Atlantic alone. He had never flown over open water before, but he flew straight to Dingle Bay in Ireland and then on to Paris, exactly as planned.

I have never bought a swim suit because of my fear for water.

I've jumped out of an airplane 34 times. I've dove 212 feet under water. I've done a lot of things that defied death.

When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn't speak French. I didn't know anyone. I felt like a fish out of water.

I've ended up water skiing behind the Stanford rowing team as well as water skiing behind an excavator while it swung around in a circle.

There was a lake beneath me, but the big, heavy parachute which had to be opened two miles above the ground couldn't be steered. My first thought was, 'Lord, they send just one woman into space, and she has to end up in the water.'

I think in those moments of being in that deep water, it's have you been in that deep water?

I grew up being scared of the water, which is embarrassing to say as an Australian, but it's true.