Quotes About Courage

I was raised not to be afraid to show emotion or imagination.

You know, my parents, they raised me to be a fighter.

Hope raises no dust.

I'm not sure I have a role model per se, but I do deeply admire every woman who raises children and has to walk for water.

I have left my home, my family, and my job, and I am raising my voice. To do otherwise would betray those who languish in prison. I can speak when so many cannot.

My greatest inspiration is my mother, the bravest person I ever knew. She overcame incredible odds, worked while raising two kids, and made it all look incredibly simple. Even in her final days succumbing to cancer, she fought like a champion.

Raising your hand when you're not sure you have the right answer helps you take risks with your ideas and put yourself out there.

Growing up raising three boys on your own is either gonna make you strong or make you crazy. It definitely made my mom strong.

I'm not going to be cowed by the rampant racism, the organised racism, that comes from parts of the alt-right.

If we want to end a culture rampant with harassment, we must listen to the adult women who are speaking out courageously. We must also make room for girls to speak: If we listened, we'd find that many middle schoolers are trying to tell us, 'Me too.'

I pretty much immediately ran away from university to be an actor.

I ran a marathon, completed a mud run and jumped from a plane.

When I was 33 years old, I ran for United States Congress in New York City. I lost miserably.

When I first ran for Congress in the 1990s, my background as an openly gay Asian was one of the focal points of the campaign, and, in fact, my opponent attacked me for it.

I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.

I ran away from small-town Canada to London; I ran away from my family because I didn't think I could be the person I was.

I thought I could make a difference, so I ran for office.

I ran away from my house when I was about 12 years old to audition for a film.

My father ran a saloon in Kenosha, Wis., which is just about as rough a living as I can think of. It was brutal; it scared the hell out of me. I was so petrified all the while I was a child, I didn't know what I was doing half the time.

I ran because somebody had to do it first. In this country, everybody is supposed to be able to run for president, but that has never really been true.

After I came out to my mother at 17, I ran away from home and lived with a friend. We come from a highly religious family, and she could not accept it. It was devastating, and I was depressed.

With 'Horror Story', it really was, 'You're going to run; you're going to jump off this cliff, and trust that that Ryan Murphy is going to catch you.' So I just ran head-on into it and jumped off the edge of that cliff.

I've always been a guy - I ran my mouth in NXT about the little guys who come through, and they are tough and feisty or whatever it is. To me, they're no more dangerous than a little chihuahua.

I never needed anyone when I became an actress. I ran off to England on my own.