Quotes About Courage

I don't feel political most of the time. Sometimes I'm placed in positions because no one else will go there.

My outspoken positions haven't always been popular in the halls of Congress, but they have been rooted in what I believed was right and necessary.

If you want to give me a good faceful for one of my political positions, I can take it.

I'm not going to hide my positions to make anyone else feel comfortable.

We all have fear in life. I don't let that fear control me. I control it, manage it, use it as a positive.

Women tell me they are different since 21 May - the day I was arrested - it's a positive change, they believe now.

I have always been a very positive person and tried to bring the positives from the hardest moments.

I think we just need to keep moving forward in a positive way.

I'm a human sacrifice. I put myself out there for the people, and hopefully they take the good and the positivity from that.

No bully ever turns down a free shot when his posse pins back your arms.

I've got a motto. When the posse's chasing you out of town, you just act like you're the head of a parade.

I became an actor in that important drama with an inflexible resolution to persevere through the last scene, when we might be permitted and acknowledged to enjoy what we had so nobly declared we would possess, or lose with our lives - Freedom and Independence!

Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward.

However you arrive at the ability to ignore self-doubt - if you can acquire it or possess it or find it or discover it - move beyond self-doubt.

Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.

I'm often drawn to characters that are more obviously one thing. They're passionate, and there is always an element of strength because I think every person possesses that in some way, even if they've experienced hardship in their lives.

The Chinaman has only a passive courage, but this courage he possesses in the highest degree. His indifference to death is truly extraordinary. When he is ill, he sees it approach, and does not falter. When condemned, and already in the hands of an officer, he manifests no fear.

When I came into politics I always thought there was a possibility I would be killed.

The album 'Cheers to the Fall' is really kind of me breaking out and being like, 'Listen, I don't care about criticism, and I don't care about possibility of failure. I'm going to do it. And if I do fail, well then, here's to it.'

When you're doing something that you think - that you know - is a breakthrough, you cannot obsess about the possibility of failure. That is just not a great place to go.

Every time I've made a big decision in my life, it's been about letting in the possibility that maybe I could do something that I actually wanted to do and not letting people tell me that I should compromise or that it's too big of a dream.

When you leave home, then you leave with the possibility of not returning.

Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.

I don't want a perfect life, I don't want an easy life, I want to live life to the fullest. To me that feels like conquering as many things as possible.