Quotes on Courage

We're going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.

I never modeled myself after anyone. The person who had most influence on me was my mother, but it was really for her strength and courage more than her style, even though she had a lot of style. In a weird way, looking at pictures of me when I was 17 or 18, I was dressing the same way. I haven't changed very much.

All Americans should take great pride in the men and women serving our nation in Iraq and in the courage, determination, resilience and initiative they demonstrate each and every day. It remains the greatest of honors to soldier with them.

Poetry takes courage because you have to face things and you try to articulate how you feel.

I don't know how to function without music. When I'm not making it, I'm listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

Individual courage is the only interesting thing in life.

To me, having the courage to tell your own story goes hand in hand with having the curiosity and humility to listen to others' stories.

For the men and women of the FBI, bravery is reflected not only in the physical courage often necessary in the job. It can be seen in the courage of conviction, in the courage to act with wisdom in the face of fear, and in the courage it takes to admit mistakes and move forward.

I've always been independent. I've always had courage. But I didn't always own my diabetes.

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days . . .nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.