Quotes About Courage

I ran away to sea. I know that only happens in fiction. But it's what I did.

Anyone who knows anything about coming out knows that this is something you would never do for the support and a small check from a random organization.

About 25 years ago, my wife and I bought Kenny Loggins' house in Santa Barbara. It was way out of our price range, but we said, 'Screw it, let's go for it.' We've raised our family there. We overextended ourselves at the perfect time in our lives, and it worked out for the best.

When I was 16, I definitely burned a couple of bridges by saying, 'I won't do this!' I was not diplomatic about it. I came to a fitting and was like, 'I don't wear fur; cancel this show!'

Everything in life is about confidence. The more you have, the further you'll go usually.

I guess the bigger you dream, the further you have to fall if you don't get it, so it can be a bit of a scary thing to be that ambitious.

I'm willing to go further than other people on camera.

The further you go, what, I'm gonna wait til I'm 80? Naw, I'm tellin' my story now. I was just moved. I was moved to tell my story. You know? People write books all the time.

The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

Leaders don't look backwards to condemn what has already been done; they look forward to create a better future.

Vermonters are inspired by the bravery, courage, and sacrifice of those who seek nothing more than the freedom to determine their own futures.

You gain a level of fearlessness performing when no one's there to see you.

When you love someone deeply, you give strength, and when you are loved deeply, you gain courage.

Nothing risque, nothing gained.

I'm a ready-shoot-aim kind of gal.

When Truman Capote wrote from the perspective of condemned murderers from a lower economic class than his own, he had some gall. But writing fiction takes gall.

I met the guy who started off the whole Babuji jokes. I removed my chappal the moment I saw him. But that was all for fun. I told him that he has done what I couldn't do in my 50-year career. I wanted to see the man who had the gall to crack such jokes.

They give us courage, but you can't play for the gallery, you have to play for your team-mates.

I've always been happy to take a gamble on myself.

For me, since I have a life wish, not a death wish, for me, I was not gambling my life. I was doing something much more beautiful. I was carrying my life across.

I used to have a gambling problem.

I didn't feel that running away would change anything but when the roof of the garage started coming off I thought it was time to go.

If people wanted to fight me in the garage, then bring them on, and I will fight them in the garage.

People didn't like me because I didn't take any garbage.