Quotes About Courage

I'm not sure I always feel like I'm in the seat. Sometimes I'm only holding on by one hand and flying out behind the roller coaster. I don't know anybody who doesn't feel that way.

The project you are most scared to do is the one that holds your greatest growth.

Fear is such a huge thing that holds us back.

What holds you back in comedy is fear.

I stand for all people even if it causes me political heartburn - and I'm going to do that no matter what my future holds.

I wasn't afraid of failing. A lot of people fear failure, and I think that holds a lot of people back. But a lot of times, it's possibly the best thing that could happen to you because you learn how to get back up, you learn how to do it better and you're stronger from that.

Some people it seems to me would like for me to crawl in a hole and disappear forever. That's just not in my nature.

Growing up as a gay boy during the holidays, there's the things you want to ask for, and then the things you ask for because you're afraid of asking for what you really want.

Every dog is a lion at home.

Honestly, if the worst these people can say about me is that I'm gay, then I think I'll be fine. I can handle it.

I honestly believe that people sit behind their computers and just get really brave.

I can honestly say that I've done everything I've wanted to do, always. Not without difficulty. But every time I wanted to do something, I just did it, from the age of 18 when I started my own theater with my friends. When I decided I wanted to act. I just bit the bullet.

Getting to the point where I was ready to write a book has been about a 20-year journey of being, really honestly, too afraid to try - which I think is pretty common for people who are trying to write a large piece of fiction.

I feel like I have some stuff that matches 'Fight Song,' not in necessarily the message exactly but in the emotion and honesty.

While I do my work with a sense of honesty, I tell myself, 'What is the worst that can happen? I fail, right?' So, will I stop living after that? No. I will try again.

Honey, I am going to my grave with my eyelashes and my makeup on.

All is lost save honor.

It's an honor to be awarded the Liberty Medal.

It never seemed that honorable to me, and I guess I was always afraid that I might fail.

In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.

It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.

I know what it's like to have guys make you feel like you need to flirt with them or be sexy or hook up with them or something, and you don't have to do those things. You just have to be strong and stand your ground.

I've got a good right hook.

Think of Capt. Hook, and then put an 's' after it. Capt. Hooks. That's me.