Quotes About Courage

They say, 'Write what you know.' What I know isn't cheerleader; it has a little bit of teeth to it.

I don't believe you back off being pro-life: You don't stop being pro-life because they say you're mean because you're pro-life.

I was in the Pacific. The Pacific Theater, as they say.

Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail.

Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself.

There's going to be good things that get you, and there's going to be bad things that get you, so you better be willing, and your skin better be thick.

In big battle scenes, like 'King Arthur', you see the knights in all their fine armour, but they're not in the thick of it: follow the perspective, and you'll find some poor little sod, who didn't want to be there, anyway, with his head split.

I used to bomb around London in my little Austin 10 throughout the raids to appear on stage and if there was a raid before the show was over I would be there, crouching on a floor wherever I could find a big thick wall.

I have inherited my father's thick skin, which helps me deal with trolls.

I have a thick skin, but I have a heart.

I've got a thick skin.

I have a thick skin.

You've got to have thick skin in this business.

I think that it is important that one grows a thick skin fast in this business, and I think we have done that.

I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.

You have to develop a very thick skin.

When you're onstage and you know you're bombing, that's very, very scary. Because you know you gotta keep going - you're bombing, but you can't stop. And you know that half an hour from now, you're still gonna be bombing. It takes a thick skin.

Am I ever gonna grow thick skin? No.

I might have to stumble a little bit more in public than others, but that's fine, I don't mind, I've developed a thick skin.

Having red hair is never good when you're a kid. I was picked on a lot and didn't have a lot of friends. But I think that gave me a thick skin and helped make me a better person.

You have to surround yourself with really good people and have a very thick skin.

My biggest advice for girls - and this is something that I wish I could have known when I was younger - is to have thick skin. It's something that you definitely develop when you get older, but when I first started, I was so obsessed with pleasing everybody. I wanted everybody to like me and to like my songs.

You develop a thick skin. And once all the chips have been played, you make sure you're working on behalf of Arizona.

I have kind of a thick skin.