Quotes About Courage

Marilynne Robinson has written that "fear is not a Christian habit of mind.

I have family and friends who are policemen and are close to my heart.

I am a fan of wuxia.

On my best days, I fancy myself a combination of Dad's persistence/patience and Mom's toughness/skepticism.

Fantastic days are what you wish upon those who have so few sunrises left, those whose lungs are so lesion-spangled with new cancer that they should be embracing as much life as they can. Time's a-wasting, go out and have yourself a fantastic day! Fantastic days are for goners.

I have the deepest, deepest respect for these guys who are actually fighting for democracy in countries far away.

I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.

Books of exploration have always fascinated me, like somebody going up the Amazon for the first time.

We don't duck democratic choices out of fear of fascists.

Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.

Claude Kirk could be hysterically funny and fearlessly bold, and he championed the environment, education, and diversity long before those issues were fashionable.

Single mommyhood wasn't fashionable in the mid-'70s.

My spleen burst. I remember feeling my heart beating really fast. Beating right out of my chest.

You know me, I go higher, faster, larger, as long as I can.

The fastest way to get me to go out and do something is to tell me no way I can do it.

I was 49 kgs in 'Viva' and I was fat shamed everyday.

I was a fat girl growing up and had to change schools because kids were so mean.

I'm kind of fat.

I admit that I'm fat.

I used to use Facetune to get rid of blemishes, and slimming apps because I was scared of being called fat, but no more.

I will never do 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!' There are certain things you'll do that you have some control over, but you should do things that leave your fate in the hands of others, too.

There is nothing cooler than having lines like, 'Batman, the fate of the world is upon us.' Who gets to say that? And who gets to say that in a deep, earnest, amazingly sexy way?

I'm not one to fall back into the corner and put my fate in someone else's hands. I tend to believe anyone in my position would do the same thing.

Learn about life and when fate takes you by the hand, go. Do it. Dare to do.