Quotes About Courage

There are plenty of people on Earth. It's not like the human race is going to disappear if a few people don't come back. Exploration is dangerous.

I do like to think I'm a bit of a fighter. There have been plenty of times when I have felt like not getting out of bed. Things do hurt me, but I dust myself off and get on with it.

Want of pluck shows want of blood.

I don't even like to talk about it. I hated being a number and not merely because I was a very small one. I let them bellow at me for just as long as it took me to find enough pluck to bellow back at them.

I didn't have indoor plumbing. I'd go to school dirty. I didn't have lunches.

One of the big lessons I have learnt from my life is that things are never as difficult as they seem. When you actively plunge into it, you realize you can easily do it.

I was a diver. Looking back, I realize that putting yourself out there, literally, on the edge of the platform is very similar to doing live TV. It's taking the plunge and knowing, with lots of practice, it'll work out fine.

I moved to Madrid with 200 bucks in my pocket to see what was going to happen. Of course, I didn't know that 200 euros was nothing, because in Cuba, 200 was a lot, and the money I had been saving from my movies.

If I were brave enough to say so, I'd like to think that I had written some poems that people are not going to forget.

I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing poems at that point only because a friend of mine dared me to write a poem. And I took the dare because I was convinced that I couldn't write a good poem... And then it actually wasn't so bad.

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve.

I was paralyzed for so long by people's opinions. I would be devastated to the point where I didn't know if I could make it through the day.

I am a point guard. It's a job that I'm not scared of.

I think I have what a New York City point guard is made of: toughness, a lot of heart, and the ability to be a leader.

I'm not afraid to fight for things I believe in, and I'm not afraid to respect people that have another point of view.

No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back.

I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.

We must go to the pitch without any fear. We have to try to compete for three points against every opponent. To do that, we must have courage and be strong.

It was important to score points today and I went for them with my guts.

At first, I was scared that if I claimed I modeled, people would be like, 'What?'

The claims that I am gay don't faze me. I don't care if people think I'm gay; why would I care? I would be proud.

I definitely need clarity.

I did take some cooking classes in high school. Boys weren't really supposed to take them. I had to risk being made fun of.