Quotes About Courage

Surfing big waves is not an extreme sport to me. I fall off, tumble down, and come up. My heart's racing because I'm thinking I almost drowned, and I thank God I can breathe again, but I always think, 'What am I hitting?' Water.

Big waves are a whole different ball game. You're riding a wave with an immense amount of speed and power, generally over 10 meters. On the face of the wave, obviously life and death thoughts start to happen.

As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.

It takes real courage and conviction to attack the establishment from within and makes waves as big as a tsunami. Ted Cruz has done that - consistently and successfully - on immigration and other issues like Obamacare, voting rights, and the 2nd Amendment.

When we did 'Breaking the Waves,' he had a sign on the wall that said, 'Make mistakes.'

In Nazare, the ocean is known as a place of death, not of riding waves.

To ride big waves you have to be ready mentally, physically and spiritually.

When I was sixteen I was terrified and I vowed never to surf waves over ten feet tall.

Blue Peter' scarred me for life. I was kayak-surfing in Cornwall and the waves were so strong it was more like white-water rafting. I had to hang on for dear life. At one point I let go and my hand was crushed on a rock.

I have already spoken about it many times. I have done a nose correction. But the way people have created waves around it at times I feel there is no point being bold in India. Rather than appreciating it, they will call you names.

Well, it was - big wave surfing was my job. And I had to accomplish some great feat every year. And we kept finding bigger and bigger waves until there was no wave too big.

Riding big waves was my passion.

When I took off on nearly vertical waves that no one else would touch, people assumed I had no fear. When they watched me suffer epic wipeouts then come up smiling, it was decided I had a screw loose.

As a comic and as a nurse, it's important to look calm on the surface when you're absolutely crapping yourself inside. So, if someone is waving a machete at you, which has happened to me when I was a nurse, it's important to make that person feel that you're in control.

Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.

You got one life to live. So I'm living it the way I want to live it.

The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.

You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed - you're not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

In my opinion, the only way to conquer stage fright is to get up on stage and play. Every time you play another show, it gets better and better.

Life is like the monkey bars: you have to let go to move forward. Once you make the decision to leap into entrepreneurship, be sure to loosen your grasp on old concepts so you can swing your way to new ones.

There's two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.

The fact is I have lost a fight, and I accept the loss from Allah. That's the way a real fighter and a real man goes out.