Quotes About Facing Danger

#1. You have plenty of courage, I am sure," answered Oz. "All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty.

L. Frank Baum

#2. I need to be doing something, because doing nothing is just as harmful as facing danger head-on.

David Levithan

#3. True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid ...

L. Frank Baum

#4. The truly courageous do not run when facing danger; they roar.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#5. There's a sucker born every minute.

P.T. Barnum

#6. Our safety is not in blindness, but in facing our dangers.

Friedrich Schiller

#7. We're facing a danger that economics is rigorous deduction based upon faulty assumptions. Science after science gets that way from time to time. When it does, we're in real trouble.

W. Brian Arthur

#8. These thrill seeker people doing extreme sports ... they have a hideous accident, go through agonizing recovery, and then go back to that activity that nearly killed them ... that's not facing your fear, that's embracing your stupidity.

Kelli Jae Baeli

#9. He leaned towards me, and I did what any reasonable person would do when facing imminent death by being eaten alive. I screamed.

Donald G. Firesmith

#10. As the most powerful people in history, we have climbed to the top of the world food chain, so to speak. Facing not one single enemy or predator who poses to us any danger of consequence, we've found the only prey left: ourselves.

Gavin De Becker

#11. True courage is in facing damger when you are afraid.

L. Frank Baum

#12. Gender segregated shelters are inaccessible to many trans people, and trans women in particular are often forced to choose between going into a men's shelter where they face enormous danger, or remaining street homeless and facing the violence, harassment, arrest, and exposure risks of that.

Dean Spade

#13. The great thing about space films generally, with the exception of Apollo 13, is that big stars tend not to work in space and I think that's because space is an equaliser. It makes everyone the same really and suits an ensemble cast and actors who are prepared to work with each other.

Danny Boyle

#14. I bet you were a Boy Scout."
"You are incomprehensible."
"It's just a compliment.

Karen Traviss

#15. The danger facing American Jews today is not that Christians want to persecute them but that Christians want to marry them.

Irving Kristol

#16. The greatest danger facing our nation isn't terrorism, global warming or the energy crisis. It is out-of-control, unbridled government spending.

R. Lee Wrights

#17. It was the look you get when facing a sudden and insurmountable danger: the errant truck, the shaky ladder, the crazy person who pins you to the linoleum and insists, with increasing urgency, that everything you know and love can be undone by a grape.

David Sedaris

#18. To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one's faith in man and God, even one's own self. It were better for one to drown oneself than live to declare such bankruptcy of faith.

Mahatma Gandhi

#19. No mathematician in the world would bother making these senseless distinctions: 2 1/2 is a "mixed number " while 5/2 is an "improper fraction." They're EQUAL for crying out loud. They are the exact same numbers and have the exact same properties. Who uses such words outside of fourth grade?

Paul Lockhart

#20. Most believers aren't in imminent danger of ruining their lives. They're facing a danger that's far greater: wasting them.

Steven Furtick

#21. The men of Texas deserved much credit, but more was due the women. Armed men facing a foe could not but be brave; but the women, with their little children around them, without means of defense or power to resist, faced danger and death with unflinching courage.

Thomas Jefferson Rusk

#22. You must still stand up and say no when society is facing a backslide or a moment of danger.

Wang Shi

#23. The day you give priority to bogus ethics over human reactions, you become a loser. Human reactions are priceless. Rules should never, ever stifle emotions. Tennis is a very human game facing a great danger that it will be strangulated in a cat's cradle of unnecessary or inhumane rules.

Ted Tinling

#24. Whether the events in our life are good or bad, greatly depends on the way we perceive them.

Michel De Montaigne

#25. By far the single greatest danger facing humankind - in fact, all living beings on our planet - is the threat of nuclear destruction.

Dalai Lama

#26. A good model guides your thinking, a bad one warps it.

Brian Marick

#27. You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on.

Sydney Schanberg

#28. Murray sounds like a blindfolded man riding a unicycle on the rim of the pit of doom, the men actually facing the danger are all so taciturn that you might as well try interviewing the cars themselves.

Clive James