Quotes About Courage

I think that anybody that is interesting and takes risks is always going to be a target.

ISIS targeting the U.S. military is like a sheep targeting a lion.

People often ask me why I continue to speak out if it's hurting my family. But that's exactly why I speak out. The people Erdogan is targeting are my family, my friends, my neighbors, my classmates. I need to speak out, or my country will suffer in silence.

I know that no matter what is said about Martin the King Jr., what he contributed, what he gave, what he meant, what he means all over this planet cannot be tarnished.

I do sometimes joke that I'm Tarzan and Ben's Jane when it comes to dealing with spiders or if there's dead things in the garden.

No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.

Unquestionably, it was going to be highly dangerous. Yet I felt it was quite natural to jump at the task. After all, if you don't like action and excitement, you don't go into police work. And, what the hell, I figured, nobody lives forever!

I think after overcoming breast cancer, you sort of become fearless and somehow going up to your boss to talk about a possible promotion doesn't seem like such a daunting task anymore.

I realize that much will be asked of me, yet I am resolved to accept it as a great and splendid task.

Explaining to my children, especially my daughter, that I will be dressed as a woman, and will be playing a eunuch was a tough task.

My colleagues made me play Truth & Dare & gave me a task that I have to stay in a room for 3 days. The room will be locked, there will be cameras all around & it's gonna be live.

Try not to worry about embarrassing yourself. That's a lifetime's task.

As an assistant operations officer for a helicopter task force in Iraq, I saw my fellow Guardsmen and soldiers risk life and limb to maintain diesel fuel supply lines.

Usually, the leaders appear in the moment of the highest stress, when it is time, speaking symbolically, to go to the barricades. Then people, clever, capable, but focused on their own tasks, will leave their immediate occupations and go to the barricades, because there is nowhere to hide.

I take on daunting tasks.

I have sworn to only live free. Even if I find bitter the taste of death, I don't want to die humiliated or deceived.

Deciding taste is egotistical, but that's how taste is established, by somebody having the courage to say, 'I don't want to sell that.'

I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted.

The people who have done it - I have been in there - a lot of people love boxing but they have not actually been in there, and haven't tasted the bitterness of a beating.

There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.

The Egyptians have grown in confidence, they've tasted freedom, and there's no way back.

I have a tattoo on my arm that says, 'The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.'

The 'believe' tattoo is because my mom always told me to believe.

I have a Superman tattoo on my right arm.