Quotes About Courage

Fostering is not for the faint of heart.

I say to everybody, 'Adoption is not for the faint of heart.'

What I do is not for the faint of heart, but I'm a different breed.

Many people don't even want to start something until they feel fairly confident that they will be a success at it. But me? I love to throw myself into things headfirst and fail all over the place.

Have a little faith. Don't give up.

Faith never makes a confession.

I don't think you ever really know what all you're doing, so you have to act on faith.

Sometimes, if you fake confidence long enough, you're going to be confident.

You can't really fake confidence.

When you fall, get right back up.

My thing is, everything I do, I leave it out there and let the chips fall where they may.

If you fall during your life, it doesn't matter. You're never a failure as long as you try to get up.

It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.

Everybody has fallen down or been disappointed in love. Where you truly shine is when you get back up.

I've fallen over on stage a couple of times, but I've only ever bruised my ego.

Our nation's leaders are fallible. It is therefore time for us to be our own heroes. We can and must be the leaders that are so desperately needed.

Life is about falling down, getting up, and moving ahead.

I'm not afraid of falling and getting up the next day with a few bumps and bruises.

I'm not afraid of falling or failing, because I've failed many times, and I learned from them.

We are so scared of failure. We are so scared of going after what we want and falling short. There's so many things in life that I put off doing because I was scared.

I was bullied at school. The black girl in Central Falls, Rhode Island, in 1973. There'd be 8 or 10 boys; I would count them as I was running.

If you know me, I don't hold back. I take what I can get, and whatever falls.

So you've got to test the envelope, find out what are your abilities and if you falter, pick yourself up and test it again. Otherwise, what is it all about, you know?

In writing, I've found, playing it safe and familiar is no way to energize anybody.