Quotes About Courage

I auditioned for 'American Idol' at 17. They told me, 'No.'

I'm not afraid of you, 'American Idol.'

When I was 16, I was doing what was popular. If I could go back, I would tell myself to not be afraid to be alone and not to follow others so much.

I was never a sit-in-the-audience-type person. Even as a little kid, when I saw a band performing at a restaurant, I would ask them if I could sing a song.

When I was 19 my friends dared me to come to Los Angeles and see if I could make it down here.

For those who feel the need to be bullies, I ignore them.

I think Stieg Larsson was pretty brave. He wanted to bring up things that we don't like to talk about, or like to ignore.

In all the difficult decisions that I made through the course of running Loudcloud and Opsware, I never once felt brave. In fact, I often felt scared to death. I never lost those feelings, but after much practice, I learned to ignore them. That learning process might also be called the courage development process.

Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.

Your fears never go away. You just get more comfortable ignoring them.

Firefighters go where they're needed, sometimes ignoring the dangers even when no one is inside a burning building to be saved.

It's about believing in yourself and ignoring the fact that men dominate it. In fact, I feel women are as strong as men.

For me, the show must go on - it doesn't matter how ill you are, you get on and do it.

I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn't like to get ill.

I didn't learn to drive until I was 65 and my husband was seriously ill.

People have responded to my stories so well. They come up after a show and say things like, 'Your album really helped me,' or 'I have stage four cancer. I'm terminally ill.' Somebody told me it gave them the courage to die.

If I ever move back to Canada, it'll be because I'm terminally ill.

Within my first year of moving abroad living on my own, my sister got ill - she got cancer - and at the same time, my mum got cancer, and she passed away. I think at that time it was a hard challenge for me to deal with it, but in a way, I have always taken strength out of anything that has come at me.

In the '50s and '60s, the life of a gay man was a secret. Homosexuality was illegal, so you didn't draw attention to yourself.

Once I faced the fact I was going to deal with illness for the rest of my life, I got on with what I really wanted to do.

The good thing about having this illness is that it allows me to be a little bit crazy.

In the case of my husband, we found that facing a life-threatening illness prodded us to make a dramatic change in our lives.

I like to think that images of people doing amazing things may open people's eyes to the human potential, to the idea that people can do the extraordinary when they set their minds to it.

I can't imagine going back to long hair. Cutting it was the greatest thing I ever did.