Courage Quotes

"I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place."

- Kobe Bryant

"Get over yourself. 'Cause it's not about you, man."

- Kobe Bryant

"I realized that intimidation didn't really exist if you're in the right frame of mind."

- Kobe Bryant

"I would go 0-30 before I would go 0-9. 0-9 means you beat yourself, you psyched yourself out of the game."

- Kobe Bryant

"Pain doesn’t tell you when you ought to stop. Pain is the little voice in your head that tries to hold you back because it knows if you continue, you will change."

- Kobe Bryant

"Courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."

- Nelson Mandela

"We must be free not because we claim freedom but because we practice it."

- William Faulkner

"Patriotism consists not in waving the flag but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong."

- James Bryce

"The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"If you push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking risk, really amazing things can happen."

- Marissa Mayer

"The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with."

- Bruce Springsteen

"Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime."

- Adlai Stevenson

"You can’t stop people from saying bad things about you. All you can do is make them liars."

- Thomas Sowell

"It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Not caring about what others think of you is the ultimate form of freedom. No amount of money or status can get you that freedom. It costs $0 and lots of courage."

- Preethi Kasireddy

"Not being afraid to ask questions is a superpower."

- Polina Marinova

"To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight."

- E.E. Cummings

"Let this be a sign that you’ve got a big heart and aren’t afraid to let others see it. Showing your emotions is a sign of strength."

- Brigitte Nicole

"I believe anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"There’s bravery in being soft."

- Gurubogso

"The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it."

- Robert Swan

"The Earth is a fine place and worth fighting for."

- Ernest Hemingway

"If you think the economy is more important than the environment, try holding your breath while counting your money."

- Guy McPherson

"The earth is a fine place and worth fighting for."

- Ernest Hemingway

"When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest."

- Henry David Thoreau

"The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be."

- Pete Seeger

"Music is not take it or leave it; Music is life or death!"

- Joss Stirling

"Don't be afraid to stand up for what you believe in. Your voice is powerful."

- Unknown

"Be the change."

- Unknown

"Be brave enough to suck at something new."