Quotes About Courage

Focus on what you believe and what you want to create, regardless of the blowback.

There is a time on every job where you say, Screw caution. I'm not foolhardy. I'm not stupid. But sometimes you have to be the battering ram.

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.

When given a choice, choose the thing that scares you a little. If it's 100% safe, it is holding you back.

Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality

If we can't have the courage to tell our constituents, hey, we've got to cut back, then if we can point to something and say, I would like to vote for more benefits for you, but this balanced budget amendment or statutory spending cap or whatever the device is, is preventing me from doing it.

Friend, I love your rebellious heart.

I think fear is what keeps us from going over the edge. I mean, as a race car driver, I don't think what makes a good race car driver is a fearless person. I think it's somebody that is comfortable being behind the wheel of something that's somewhat out of control.

The First Amendment says nothing about a right not to be offended. The risk of finding someone else's speech offensive is the price each of us pays for our own free speech. Free people don't run to court, or to the principal, when they encounter a message they don't like. They answer it with one of their own.

Brave is a mental illness you get when you're desperate. Sometimes it lasts for less than a minute. Sometimes it sticks with you forever, like leprosy or TB. It all depends on how many times you have to carry the condition around in your head.

If being any kind of hero falls all the way down to men like you, then we have already lost.

Life doesn't reward those who refuse to expose themselves to difficulties and challenges.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. — Marie Curie

When you believe you can do something, you have the courage to move forward despite being afraid.

There's another bonus when you're willing to expand your comfort zone. When you push through fear and take action in some areas of your life, you'll develop confidence in other areas, as well. It's true! As I became more comfortable as a speaker, I also became a better salesman … a better businessman … a better listener … the list goes on and on.

As adults, most of us become a lot more concerned about the opinions of others, often hesitating because people may laugh at us or criticize us. At the age of six, we knew we had to fall

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses courage loses all. — Miguel de Cervantes

The only way to escape from the prison of fear is action. — Joe Tye

Running away from your fears is a losing strategy. — Jeff Keller

Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON

I may not be strong, but I am fierce

I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.

Faith is not just about what we know, but in trusting in what we don't know. Unless we acknowledge that tension, we will never stand firm when second choices threaten to unsettle us. (Singing in Babylon - Finding Purpose In Life's Second Choices)

As close as we are today, tomorrow when we come back from that battlefield, we will be as close as two men can possibly be, sharing a bond that can only be forged in the face of imminent disfigurement. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.