Quotes About Courage

The thing about taking risks is, if it's really a risk, you really can fail. It's only a pretend risk if you really can't fail.

When people take risks and it's not rewarded, in the case of 'Mirror's Edge,' it's makes it harder for others to be comfortable taking risks.

Journalists couldn't do their jobs overseas without taking risks, and the same is true for diplomats and intelligence officers.

I think I'm taking risks and putting myself out there.

I'd like to be smart, fun, and real. It's very easy to just put together a pretty dress, some heels, and some jewels. I don't want to be that girl. It's all about being brave, taking risks. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

I'm often asked how I shoulder the responsibility of films, but I've always believed in taking risks.

Rennes wanted me at one point, but in France they have a problem - they don't like taking risks. But if you don't take risks, you don't get anywhere. You pass by the periphery of many things, like life and football.

I'm not scared of big stadiums. There are other risks in my profession, and I love taking risks.

I don't think about taking risks anymore because there aren't any risks to take.

If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.

Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.

Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of.

Hope is a talent like any other.

I was very innocent and shielded as a child, so I didn't know a lot about music or dancing. When I was in Primary Six, no one would participate in a talent show, so I decided to go on. When the audience applauded me, I felt euphoric, and I started dancing right after that!

You have people that know they have the talent, but sometimes they get scared when success is in their face.

I went from selling everything to saying, 'I ain't gonna sell that. Can't do it.' It wasn't working for me, so I was just like, 'Yo, I'm going to sell my talent.'

Be talented enough to make it and stupid enough to keep trying.

Elizabeth Keckley was a woman of remarkable strength, courage, perseverance, and dignity. She was exceptionally talented, but also very diligent and ambitious, and together those qualities enabled her to deliver herself from slavery and become a successful businesswoman.

My grandmother was energetic and fearless - a talented poet and songwriter. She was also interested in chemistry and history and medicine, taking care of the people in her hacienda in Mexico, delivering babies. She could have become anything, but this was the 1930s, and she was forced into an arranged marriage.

I don't like seeing talented storytellers ruled by fear.

Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.

On the day when I was shot, and on the next day, people raised the banners of 'I am Malala'. They did not say 'I am Taliban.'

I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban.

I was point man, which meant I was the first through the door, hunting down Taliban commanders, knocking down forts every night.