"Courage isn't something you are born with...." - Quote by Patricia Neal

“I think I was born stubborn, that's all.”

“I may be a dumb blonde, but I'm not that blonde.”

“A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.”

“When faced with a choice between violence and cowardice, always choose violence”

“It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.”

“One isn't born with courage. One develops it by doing small courageous things-in the way that if one sets out to pick up a 100-pound bag of rice, one would be advised to start with a five-pound bag, then 10 pounds, then 20 pounds, and so forth, until one builds up enough muscle to lift the 100-pound bag. It's the same way with courage. You do small courageous things that require some mental and spiritual exertion.”

“Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know “why” I look this way. I’ve traveled a long way and some of the roads weren’t paved.”

“There were a lot of missteps in the early days, but because we got in early we got to make more mistakes than other people.”

“In one's youth every person and every event appear to be unique. With age one becomes much more aware that similar events recur. Later on, one is less often delighted or surprised, but also less disappointed than in earlier years.”