Quotes About Courage

The excitement of automobile racing did not compare with what I knew must come with aeroplane fighting in France.

I have to accept risk as a racing driver.

When you start thinking you may get hurt, it's time to get out of racing.

Do I care about what men say at the race track? No, not at all. I've always said I race for me, because I love racing. I don't race to prove a point about how well a woman can do against men on the track.

My African-American friends thought it was cool that I was racing. It's not like we had any role models out there to look up to, so everyone understood I was doing something very different.

I've never had any issues with racism or racist people at the track for as long as I've been racing in NASCAR. All of that stuff that has happened to my face took place when I was coming up. And a lot of what I get now on social media is 13- and 14-year-old kids just trying to act tough. Well, I'll call them out.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

The West needs leaders with the courage and the will to fight the scourge of radical Islam.

When you're on a raft, you pray like in a foxhole.

At some points, hope was the only thing I had. When I began my journey toward walking again, I clung to hope like a life raft.

The Green Lanterns are very forward and very courageous, very forceful. The Red Lanterns are out of control, and they're not in their right mind because when we're angry or in rage, we say things and we do things we wouldn't normally do.

The first film role I deliberately chose to play after I came out was a raging heterosexual, John Profumo.

The kind of roles that Harrison Ford plays are what really interest me, like 'Indiana Jones' and 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.'

Writing my novel 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North,' I came to conclude that great crimes like the Death Railway did not begin with the first beating or murder on that grim line of horror in 1943.

I have never coasted down a hill of frozen rain.

'Singin' in the Rain' and childbirth are two of the hardest things I ever had to do in my life.

Always end your book with Nelson Mandela saying something about rainbows or renaissances. Because you care.

There is no rule in the pink-triangle guide to coming out that you must wear a rainbow flag cap and organise a full band parade.

You have a plantation where you have 10 white people and you have about 50 or 60 black people. The automatic thought was, 'Why didn't they raise up? Why didn't they overpower? They had the numbers.' But really these people, their hope was broken. Their sense of love was broken. Their appreciation for who they were was broken.

I believe it is my duty as a performer to raise issues in the world of things we're afraid to look at.

The thing is, is to raise your hand. It's not to hide, and it's not to try and pretend or do anything like that. You raise your hand, that's the best thing about it.

I was born and raised in war.

I was raised by a single dad, and I've always kind of liked things that are typically more guy-oriented.

I was raised thinking I'd burn in hell for being gay, but I didn't have a choice. It's just who I am.