Quotes About Courage

The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.

I'm not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict.

You can say a lot of things about me, but you can never say I don't take risks.

You've got to have faith in what you're doing and not take no for an answer.

We had a pretty good life, growing up in Taiwan, and I think my dad really made a concerted effort to say hey, we're going to take a chance and go halfway around the world so that my kids can have more opportunities.

The thing is most people are afraid to step out, to take a chance beyond their established identity.

Climbing is all about freedom, the freedom to go beyond all the rules and take a chance, to experience something new, to gain insight into human nature.

Playing it safe isn't fun; you have to take a chance.

A man in a position of power over me used that said power to try and take advantage of me.

I am not afraid of anything. God will take care of everything.

I was the one that put myself in rehab. I was the one that went to my parents and said, you know, 'I have a problem and I need to take care of it.'

My mom always knew I would be able to take care of myself, but my dad was afraid.

I was taught to believe that the most dishonorable thing a Meredith could do was work in a white woman's kitchen and take care of a white man's child. I knew I would starve to death rather than do either.

Looking at America's history, ordinary people did something extraordinary. Leaders risked their lives for freedoms that we take for granted today. That's what instills confidence. That's us. We will move forward and prosper because that's who we are as Americans.

I think we take for granted police officers and detectives that walk into some pretty heinous situations, and they really have to be very brave. So I love playing a character that's very brave - someone that kind of dives in the fire to figure out what's happened.

Believe me, I've taken a lot of heat for my mustache.

Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.

I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo. The next time a woman runs, or a black, a Jew, or anyone from a group that the country is 'not ready' to elect to its highest office, I believe that he or she will be taken seriously from the start.

Everything I was afraid of when I was growing up, I've become. I've taken on my nightmares, like the devil and the end of the world, and I've become those things.

In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are not perfect.

Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns.

I've taken a lot of chances in my life.

For myself, I believed that that 13th of March should see a fight to the finish, cost what it might! for if Bloemfontein was to be taken, it would only be over our dead bodies.