Quotes About Courage

It was satisfying to take a risk and see it pay off.

People assume I'm fearless. A lot of the things I deal with are pretty scary. Fear makes you pay attention - it's about absolute concentration.

Try not to pay attention to those who will try to make life miserable for you. There will be a lot of those - in the official capacity as well as the self-appointed.

We need to not pay attention to those stupid kids who would drop their food trays on me in the cafeteria. Because, you know what? They don't matter anymore.

If I wanted to play it safe, I'd get a normal job with a secure paycheck.

When the image that I built around the first album was crumbling, it was scary: the risk pays off, but the resonances of that risk are not always easy to deal with.

'Answer The Call' - we're trying to support the real heroes of our world, the people who protect us and afford us freedom and give us that peace of mind.

Know that you are always safe. And also know that it's possible to move from the old to the new, easily and peacefully.

I think, as Canadians, that's just as important as our peacekeeping service: We go out and find these stories that other people are not willing to tell.

We go by the lighthouse; paddle out. After we got out, we paddled way down to get the biggest peak.

Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.

With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, Can I sing this part, or, I want to play guitar. I feel like I have more courage to do that.

I ain't trying to run away from no danger. If it's supposed to be dangerous for me, then I'm going to go and take a peek. I want to go and look and see what's so dangerous about it.

There's always a little fear anytime you're doing something crazy because at any moment you can break a leg, land on your neck, or peel off the bar. Over the years, we've fallen so many times that we've kind of learned how to fall safely. Still, there is always a risk.

If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers.

You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you're nuts, and you're not as popular with girls as you should be.

When you step up and take a penalty, it's 50/50 - but you've got to back yourself.

There is a place for people 65 and older that no other age group can fit. We have nothing to lose. Some of us have a couple pennies. We can go out now and really be revolutionaries.

Give me the action. I come from a place of fighters. My father was a fighter, a boxer, and Penny loves to box. So give it to me until my body won't do it anymore. Bring it on.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.

I'm blind in my left eye. Contrary to what people say, it is not a glass eye, so I have to protect my eyes at all cost.

You just can't afford to care that much about the negative things people say about you. You just can't!