Quotes About Courage

When you're in the position I'm in, you have two options: you can either shut yourself off from everybody, from the world, and not live a full life. Or you welcome everybody into your life and occasionally somebody will try to take advantage. And I'd much rather be that person who lets people in.

Why are people afraid of ghosts? 'Ooh, no, I wouldn't want to see one! I'd be too scared' - accompanied by a tremolo of fear in the voice - is the common reaction. This puzzles me. I'd think anyone would welcome he opportunity. I've never heard of a ghost hurting anybody.

I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit.

When a person finally has the courage to say, 'This is who I am,' and society is not there to welcome them with open arms, it is so tragic.

I welcome pressure.

I welcome criticism. I come from a - I wouldn't say mean, but you've got to have tough skin to be in my family.

I welcome someone who is willing to march to the beat of his own drum - to hell with the haters.

Conservatives have welcomed Trump's attacks on the establishment, have cheered his boldness, and have applauded his courage. He has taken on hitherto taboo issues like immigration enforcement and has demonstrated the hollowness of what passes for conventional wisdom.

It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician.

I'm terribly sad about Farrah's passing. She was incredibly brave, and God will be welcoming her with open arms.

By protecting our Afghan friends from reprisals and welcoming them into our American family, we can assert that the United States is still a great and good country - and that we do not abandon those who risked their lives to serve with us.

During 1989, my mother, who was exceedingly good at finding these free programs - you know, we were on welfare, just trying to get through - but she would find these amazing programs. She sent me to the Soviet Union at the age of 12 to go study in the forest of then-Leningrad with 50 other Soviet kids.

When you question this war on poverty, you get all the criticisms from adherents to the status quo who just don't want to see anything change. We got to have the courage to face that down, just as we did in the welfare reform of the late 1990s, and if we succeeded, we can help resuscitate this culture and get people back to work.

'Captain Marvel,' whereby the steel trap is challenged, where the hero is a heroine, where the most powerful person who has the welfare of the future of the human race is a woman. What else can it be? Because that was the role of my mother when I was a kid.

It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.

It is better to die well than to live badly.

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.

Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

I'm not even scared of the devil. If the devil confronted me, I'd confront him as well.

Everybody told me I was making a mistake by going into this business, but I know how to grow hair as well as I know how to grow cotton.

To be a champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.

Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.