Courage Quotes

"I don't fear AI. I fear what humans will do with AI."

"Fear is a powerful motivator, but empathy is even stronger."

"We must be willing to take bold action."

"Don't let the fear of failure stop you from trying something new."

"As artists, we have to be brave. If we aren't brave, we aren't artists."

"A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free."

"A hero cannot be a hero unless in an heroic world."

"The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue."

"We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy."

"I live in fear of being a contented passenger. I'd rather get parts I can't play."

"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."

"No man is a hero to his valet."

"Clint Eastwood has always been a hero."

"I think fear of the unknown is the scariest thing."

"No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected."

"The destroyer Cork, like the useful hero for whom it is named, will be game to the last."

"Death, in itself, is nothing; but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where."

"Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence."

"My main frustration is the fear of cancer from low dose radiation, even by radiologists."

"It's fear of being afraid that frightens me more than anything else."

"A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil."

"Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure."

"A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear."

"Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma."

"You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse."

"When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you; but when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh. So you become the hero rather than the victim of the joke."

"My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. I don't really know what's happening down there. Who is the real hero?"

"Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are."

"You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'"

"American actors are all muscular, tanned, white teeth and they have this indestructible confidence. We British are all... Dare I say it? Pessimistic."

"Fear even when morbid is not cowardice. That is the label we reserve for something that a man does. What passes through his mind is his own affair."

"Perfect courage is todo without witnesses what one would be capable of doing before all the world."

"I do not have a fear of heights at all. I was the kid who would see how high I could get in the trees. I was always climbing something. But I wasn't allowed to look down; I had to step off completely blind and backwards."

"The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don't have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven't had that fear."

"I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it."

"For the 'Load' album, I was experimenting so much with tone that I had to keep journals on what equipment I was using. For 'Hero of the Day,' I know I used a 1958 Les Paul Standard with a Matchless Chieftain, some Boogie amps and a Vox amp - again, they're all blended."

"I'm not the type of person to give up just because something gets rough. That's a coward. That's not me."

"Retirement isn't so bad. Give me a tall drink, a plush sofa and a rerun of 'Matlock,' and you can have the rest. Matlock is my hero. He never loses."

"I like challenges, I like that fear you feel for something new, and with a new director, I think it's very important to always support new projects."

"Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?"

"I would rather portray the hero if it's a really great film. All my favorite fictional film characters are heroes, such as in 'The Last of the Mohicans' and 'Robin Hood.'"

"So farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear, Farewell Remorse: all Good to me is lost; Evil be thou my Good."

"What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it."

"Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit."

"One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes."

"Many brave men lived before Agamemnon, but all are weighed down in unending night, unwept and unknown, because they lacked a sacred bard."

"Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear."

"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold."

"And I do have one surefire plot I have not and probably never will write because of my fear someone will carry it out."

"You, too, women, cast away all the cowards from your embraces; they will give you only cowards for children, and you who are the daughters of the land of beauty must bear children who are noble and brave."