Quotes About Courage

My kind of music is probably not going to shoot to the top, but I'm fine with that. There's still enough rock'n'roll soldiers.

I didn't want to hike to the top of El Capitan and rappel down the route, and start fixing lines. For me it was really important to try to climb it from the ground up at first.

I wish that there were more games having the courage to talk about more subversive topics. Talking about politics, sexuality, human relationships.

On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.

Topics that are hard to talk about can be difficult for a lot of people, but it's important that we make sure we're addressing difficult topics/issues so it doesn't become the norm.

When I was on Broadway, my most recent Broadway show was 'Spring Awakening,' and every night I did a topless scene.

I don't think anybody will ever say Eddie Guerrero was too little, Shawn Michaels was too little. I don't think you're ever going to think Dean Malenko was too little. Rey Mysterio? Certainly not too little. All these guys got over, and they were all tops in their field.

Voltaire lighted a torch and gave to others the sacred flame. The light still shines and will as long as man loves liberty and seeks for truth.

A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.

I've been through 20 years of torment battling with my sexuality.

It don't matter if I got a broke hand, got a torn muscle: I'm going to fight like heavyweight champions do.

I myself was completely torn by the decision to start Teach For America. There was a voice in my head telling me not to do it - to take a more normal path. I did have one thing going for me, which was that I had been rejected from all the other jobs I'd applied to.

My body was torn apart by an enemy hand grenade... upon arriving at Camp Bastion, I was labeled P.E.A. - patient expired on arrival. I flat-lined at Walter Reed.

There is little you can do to stop a tornado, a hurricane, or a cancer diagnosis from changing your life in an instant.

After divorcing, I left South Africa to live in Toronto. They were tough years. On my own with three young children and no income. I'd cry when they spilt milk because I didn't have the money to buy any more.

In the mid-1970s, there was this huge boom of stand-up comedy throughout North America. I went to see a show at a club called Yuk-Yuks, in Toronto, and I was just fascinated. I ended up coming back for amateur hour on a Monday at midnight and got up there without any thought as to what might come of it.

Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.

The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth.

By the age of 24, I found myself convicted in prison in Egypt, being blacklisted from three countries in the world for attempting to overthrow their governments, being subjected to torture in Egyptian jails, and sentenced to five years as a prisoner of conscience.

And I've known people who came out with a sense of torture.

I think I'm a tough person, but for sure, I would talk under torture.

There are nations, where people live in captivity, fear and silence. I believe, one day from prison camps and torture cells and from exile the leaders of freedom will emerge. The world should stand with those oppressed people until the day of their freedom finally arrives.

Anyone who reads '33 Men' will be brought into a world that was practically a textbook case of sensory deprivation and torture.

Most men, I think, wonder about their courage. How would they act in combat? Under torture?