Bethany Hamilton Quotes

To save all we must risk all.

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea.

Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.

I run to see who has the most guts.

I can't spare this man—he fights.

We believe in our destiny. We do not shrink from any sacrifice.

It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.

One thing that's great about firefighters: If they don't have the equipment they desperately need, they don't have the help, they don't care. They'll do it on their own.

Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

A hero is a man who does what he can.

It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.

There's a scene I particularly like in 'Betrayed' where Shane has been shot in the side. Yet he drives to a small airport, checks out the Rockfort plane and flies himself and Elena to safety. Only when he knows they are out of danger does he allow himself to sit down on the couch and admit he's injured - to a horrified Elena.

Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment.

Heroism is endurance for one moment more.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

To me, the word 'hero' hasn't got positive or negative value - 'hero' is the person who leads you through the story.

It's all about your determination, I think, as much as anything. There are a lot of people with talent, but it's that determination.

You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.

From caring comes courage.

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.

In politics, guts is all.