Quotes About Courage

Sammy was the only one that looked like me, so I naturally gravitated to him. Sammy made it cool to be black at a time when, let's just say it, it wasn't very cool to be black. His name was on the front of the building in lights, and he had to go in the back. But you never saw him sweat.

I was the 128th human in space. So I didn't really sweat about it.

It's natural to have butterflies, sweaty palms... that's a good sign you're prepared for battle, prepared to take on something difficult.

In the sweep of history, George W. Bush will be seen as one of our greatest presidents because of the decisions he made to keep us safe after 9/11.

Anything called the Teflon Corner is not sweet for free-soloing.

I think that when you're kind of just shoved out there and you have to be tough and you're facing tough people and people are saying bad things about you, that all of a sudden, you have to become a little less sweet.

My mother was a very sweet soul and a beautiful person, but she had a lot of fear.

Heroes can be sweet.

I am a sweet old softy, but it took toughness to get through what I went through.

It takes a lot of courage, when everyone is asking you what you want to do, if you say that you want to be a musician or an actor; people can be very condescending and say, 'Oh, that's so sweet, good luck with that!' It can be very frustrating.

I like a woman who's not afraid to be sweet.

A lot of us are ruled by fear during our lives - afraid we'll get burgled, afraid a dog will bite us, afraid we'll get fat, afraid someone will leave us. Once you lose fear, life becomes sweeter, and that happens as you get older. I'm sure by the time I'm 80, I'll be able to do absolutely anything!

Cancer Boy probably has the saddest, noblest, sweetest heart of any character I've ever done.

I did not want the #MeToo movement to be swept under the rug.

I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.

I'm not an outdoor girl. I can barely swim. I don't ride a horse.

A lot of people think it's insane to swim out in blue water with a great white shark, but my experience tells me I can do it safely. Other people might consider it mad, granted, but then I might think what they do is mad.

Challenge yourself, jump off the deep end and learn to swim.

And as a woman, you need to take risks. Don't stay too long in your own swim lane.

I think I've gotten to the point in my life where I have to do everything that I'm scared of because you're not going to learn anything if you don't, so you just have to dive in the deep end and see if you can swim.

I can't swim.

I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.

Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.

Learning how to swim is the biggest achievement for me, as it helped me get rid of hydrophobia. Now I have become a complete water baby.