Quotes About Courage

If you think you're gonna have pity on me or take it easy on me, then I'm gonna have to help you off your back.

People who pity themselves think, 'Why would I try to do anything? I'll just fail.'

At pivotal moments throughout history, there have always been grey areas, and there likely will be in the future. Courage now lies not in the black and white, as in the past, but in the grey.

Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.

I want to show the world that we have the best fighters. Our motto is, 'Death is better than second place.'

I'm just a kid that defied the odds. I'm just a kid that ignored the doubt. I'm just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I'm going to continue to go all the way.

I never expected to be the face of sexual harassment. But I never give up on anything. So when placed in a new, challenging situation, it's like, 'I'm going to give this 110% because that's what I've done my entire life.'

At some point, most of us reach a place where we're afraid to fail, where we instinctively avoid failure and stick only to what is placed in front of us or only what we're already good at. This confines us and stifles us.

Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.

Martin Luther King, Jr. was a revolutionary, simple and plain.

The point is, when you have a chance to have a big adventure, especially if, like in your case, it doesn't hurt anyone, it's just plain foolish not to take it.

I don't know what my label is. I just think of myself as a plain forward. I like to think I have some finesse to my game, but inside the paint is where men are made. If you can't play there, you should be home with your mama.

There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.

I like to go full bore into something. If you have a backup plan, then you've already admitted defeat.

You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave.

Discomfort is very much part of my master plan.

I've got to say that is - the highest emotion of the human experience is going down in a plane knowing your going to die!

I'm scared of heights, but for my 30th birthday I'm going to try and get someone to kick me out of a plane and do a parachute jump.

To be absolutely alone for the first time in the cockpit of a plane hundreds of feet above the ground is an experience never to be forgotten.

One of the most gratifying things I get as an artist is when people watch me do these different demonstrations, and they in some way feel empowered by what I'm doing so they can confront their own fears. Maybe it's the fear of getting in an elevator; maybe it's the fear of going on a plane and seeing the world.

I flew on a plane the week after 9/11.

One day I'm riding a bicycle in my neighborhood, the next day I auditioned for Menudo and was on a plane to perform in front of 200,000 people.

If you think, 'I'm jumping out of a plane at 30,000 feet!' you're not going to do it. But if you just jump out, then you'll have an interesting ride.

I'd like to jump out of a plane. I have a fear of heights I'd like to face.