Courageous Quotes - Page 6

I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their courageous protests against state terror and repression.

Cuba has become a symbol of courageous resistance to attack. Since 1959, Cuba has been under attack from the hemispheric superpower.

I'm afraid of everything. I'm not a naturally courageous person.

Of course, Jesus was the most courageous man who ever lived. He prayed and asked God to take the cup from Him before He went to the cross, but He still went because He knew that's what He was supposed to do.

It is courageous to occasionally admit that there are certain things one can't do.

Children teach us to be courageous and to stand up against injustice.

Find that courageous yes. Fight for that confident no.

The death of honest and courageous a reporter leaves America a little more vulnerable.

Apology is the most courageous gesture we can make to ourselves.

Waste not a day in vain digression; with resolute, courageous trust seek every possible impression and make it firmly your posession you'll then work on because you must.

It's not exactly courageous to be an anti-racist these days; a hundred years ago, it was.

I don't feel particularly courageous.

The word 'heresy' not only means no longer being wrong; it practically means being clear-headed and courageous. The word 'orthodoxy' not only no longer means being right; it practically means being wrong

C'est courageux d'aller dans l'inconnu': It is courageous to go into territory unknown.

It's fear that makes an act courageous.

Yes, this is a dangerous time. Yes, this is a time full of shadows and fear. But we have been through worse before and we have faced more difficult days before. We have shown courage and determination, and skillful and inventive and courageous and committed responses to crisis before.

To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something.

Frank Rich, Paul Krugman, Maureen Dowd, a whole host of brilliant, courageous critics say all kinds of things, and he [Barack Obama] treats them with respect. They get invited to the White House. I say the same thing, he talks to me like I'm a Cub Scout.

Something I am now convinced of, after researching Everyone Brave, is that none of us is born courageous in all respects.

It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional predispositions on it but to courageously accept what our explorations tell us.

I actually think it's courageous to be vulnerable, and it's not something to be avoided.

I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.

I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for-first, a little, and badly. Then, bit by bit, more and better. Being avidly-sometimes annoy-ingly-curious and persistent about discovering how others were doing what I wanted to do.

Every single courageous act of coming out chips away at the curse of homophobia. Most importantly it's destroyed within yourself, and that act creates the potential for its destruction where it exists in friends, family and society.

Drew Dellinger is a deep and courageous poet. How lucky we are!