Quotes About Courage

Emotionally, I depend only on myself. My strong belief in the Almighty carries me.

My father was very abusive, and it was hard for my mother at first to leave because we had depended on him for so long. Sometimes you kind of get adjusted to getting that beating.

If you are afraid of losing something, then you are dependent on it. If you are not afraid, then you are free.

A country's future depends on its ability to bite back.

I got married in 2009, and my husband and I both immediately deployed to Afghanistan.

I've never really been afraid of how people were going to define me, as long as I didn't write some cheaper song because people like that I'm depressed.

All depression is fear-based.

I'm what you call a Depression sailor.

In the Depression especially, I think you learn to face problems and not run away from them.

I was able to battle back through depression.

I like feeling out of my depth.

I like to be out of my depth - that's when I learn the most.

I've looked inside myself, and I'm rather happy with what I found. I've discovered my depth, and I am not afraid to be alone in this world anymore.

I come from Des Moines. Someone had to.

Every single one of us is the descendant of a go-getter. Of dreamers and of believers.

I crossed the Gobi desert to be free and now I thought I live in a country where I can say what I believe and have my freedom to think. However, now I have to constantly censor my speech because in the name off a 'safe place.'

The fear of losing is always there, but you mustn't let that fear dull your desire to win.

My family is so loving and so encouraging. Ever since I was little, it was implanted in my head - and my sister's and my brother's - that we could do anything our heart desired to do, and to not be afraid.

I don't write stories about despair. I write stories about hope.

When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again.

A novel is something, while despair is nothing.

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best.

In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.

I never let myself get desperate.