Quotes About Courage

You back me into a corner, I'm not going to lay down and die. I've been down that road too many years in my life.

You should never doubt yourself because you never, ever know what's around the corner.

'No one sits Baby in a corner,' one of the best lines in movie history.

When things get you in the corner, and it feels like you can't go on, you can fight back. You're never out of the fight.

If you put us in a difficult corner, we will stand our ground - that is the kind of country we are.

This happens to be that the power of laughter and love would beat out the power of fear every time. You know, I hate to sound corny about it but it's true, and I think that's what this movie is about.

Being a black woman in America and the world and in corporate situations is something to be celebrated.

Whatever the job is, we can do it. That's why the nation has a Marine Corps.

I have endless admiration for people like Chrissie Hynde who've been out as the only girl in a band. I'm not sure that, even as a little Marine Corps brat, I would've been able to deal with that.

Our mom was a super strident, capable, and strong individual. I think because she was a military wife in the Marine Corps, she had to push back the things that she believed, and she had to really scrape and fight to have her space.

When you get out of the Marine Corps, you feel like you can do anything.

I'm probably more comfortable inside a Marine Corps rifle company than I am anywhere in my life.

After my time in the Marine Corps with 'don't ask, don't tell,' I didn't want to hide any more.

I used to be an awful asker. I was the 14-year-old who didn't correct the family I would babysit for when they gave me less money than we had agreed to, because it felt rude and scary.

We need to not be afraid to step up and take a fight to the corruption that's in this world.

Giving children the sense that you always ought to speak up for what's right, even if it costs you something, that's something you can do.

The process of coming out, as much as other people want to couch it in terms of politics, it's a very personal journey.

I still don't go to gay bars all that often, but the difference now is that I'm not not going because I'm afraid, but rather I'm not going now because I don't want to get off the couch.

One man with courage is a majority.

From caring comes courage.

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

Courage is the birthplace of confidence.

It takes courage to be an entrepreneur.

Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.