Quotes About Courage

Perhaps the right to authenticity and the reverence of authenticity should be reserved for people like John McCain. John McCain who at his most authentic chose to stay and face years of torture rather than leave before his brothers.

In the Averoff prison hospital I saw men who had had the bones in their feet broken by the severity of the torture.

As a reward for their efforts, however, those early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, thrown to the lions, tortured and crucified. Every conceivable method was used to stop them from talking.

I was arrested three times and tortured once.

I told the people before they tortured me, please, don't torture me. I didn't do anything. They say, we have to torture you very much. Then when they tortured me, I told them everything they want to hear. I signed confession. That said, the ball was in their court. You know, I very much surrender to my lot.

When you hear the word 'cancer,' it's as if someone took the game of Life and tossed it in the air. All the pieces go flying. The pieces land on a new board. Everything has shifted. You don't know where to start.

I'm fascinated how often and with what whole-heartedness people will risk their lives to perform acts of courage, sacrifice, and compassion for total strangers.

There's just a total boatload of crazy that goes with singing live for the first time when you're 60 years old.

People often say that having a family makes you make safer choices. It's been the total opposite for me. It's really made me want to make bolder choices.

I have prayed to God that he give me the strength to survive each day and to face those times in my life that will be extremely painful. I have put my total faith in God, and he will take care of me.

I'm not ashamed to look like a total idiot.

In my opinion, Zac Efron is a total hero. Him seeking help encourages other people with addictive issues to seek help. It's brave of him.

There is no need to give in to the compromise that totalitarian regimes always count on.

I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.

I've totally embraced it. I like Princess Leia. I like how she was feisty.

When I came out, I was 68, and I was totally prepared for my career to recede when I spoke to the press for the first time. What happened after that blew me away. I started getting more offers. My career blossomed.

During the era when women were burning their bras - which, by the way, they never actually did - but when women were first becoming liberated, I was 23. And I met a woman who asked, 'Don't you feel bad because you're sort of acting like the stupid airhead blonde?' And I totally surprised myself. I said, 'Liberation can also come from the inside.'

Personally, I wouldn't mind going on stage naked, totally naked.

It is totally cool to be gay.

Everyone gets scared from time to time. It's totally normal, and anyone who says otherwise is a liar.

Si nuestras vidas son breves y carecen de dirección, al menos podemos sentirnos orgullosos de nuestro coraje colectivo en nuestra lucha por comprender cosas mucho más grandes que nosotros.

Today is a good day to die. But I've decided to stay alive until tomorrow

Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.

War is the way that gods breed cowards