Quotes About Courage

I like to rattle cages.

He will fight a rattlesnake and give it the first two bites too.

There are times in my life where I'm frantic and I think to myself, 'Okay, what would Raven do now?' As dumb as that sounds, it's in my head.

We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw and nervy.

Ray Mercer has the heart of a lion and a great chin.

I've had people call me and tell me, 'You've given me courage.' It's fantastic... it's heart-warming to know you can be a ray of hope in somebody's life.

Ray Aghayan told me to be more flamboyant, but I have to be me.

I know one thing: Ray Mercer is not going down from a head punch. I think he's got one of the best chins in the game.

I came into office to do what was correct, not to see what was politically expedient to get re-elected.

Oh, it was a tough call to reach Mumbai leaving friends and home behind but I knew 'it's now or never.' So I embarked on my new journey.

There is one good thing about reaching the bottom. When you get there, there's nothing left to do but fight your way back up or die.

I was determined not to sit around and watch my life deteriorate. I kept reaching out in hope and honesty that someone would find me. I never gave up hope. I fell flat on my face and got up again.

I learned early on not to feel badly about reaching out for help, and not to feel embarrassed about saying that you're in over your head.

I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in.

What I learned: if you've done something you think the public is going to react badly to, you can't delay it, hide from it, or ignore it. You have to address it head on and take your beating. Always take your beating.

For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared.

If I feel like making something, if I feel like saying something on the track, that's what I am going to do - regardless of reaction.

Being gay facilitated my capacity for shame. As a child, I carried around this thing that gradually became this big dark secret. When I came out in a newspaper interview at 30 I was expecting the reaction the following day to be like the climax of 'Dead Poets Society,' but actually no one really cared.

People don't step outside themselves and make the film they want to make, because they're afraid of the reaction. But once you get that reaction and have lived through it, there's nothing they can do to get you down.

All adventure is now reactionary.

Trolls want reactions. Don't become a bully because they're bullying you!

I know and do what is right better than many big men who read.

Heroes always have their scars. Some you can see, some you read about later on.

Be fearless. Be glib. Be enigmatic. Read. Never give up.