Quotes About Courage

I have always said that you have to fail. If you do not fail, it means you have never taken enough risks.

I was hit by a car. I almost died. My show was taken away from me. I was frightened.

A lot of things I've done in my life have taken incredible mental fortitude.

It's taken a lot of years for me to learn how to share my story.

If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing.

It's quite hard to find a ballsy or complex character. So the roles I've taken are those. Lot's of people put me in the dark category.

So once you hit like that place, where everything is stripped from you, everything is taken from you, you really discover who you really are. I discovered that I'm a real hero, that I can deal with that situation, that I can rise up to the challenge.

Show me a Scorsese film, and I'll show you a movie where he's taken risks. It's just his nature. He's an artist, and artists take risks. He always does what he believes in.

I have always believed that the risk takers are eventually rewarded.

Maggie Gyllenhaal, Chelsea Handler, Tilda Swinton, and Sofia Coppola are other clients. They're all risk takers but never look like they're in costume.

I like risk takers. They're the ones that end up changing the world.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

It takes a certain level of maturity to get hit and get knocked down and get back up.

It takes some balls to live life to the fullest.

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it.

I don't know how to function without music. When I'm not making it, I'm listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.

What does it take to be the first female anything? It takes grit, and it takes grace.

It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.

Always there should be a little mistake here and there - I am for it. The people who don't do mistakes are cold like ice. It takes risk to make a mistake. If you don't take risk, you are boring.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.