Quotes About Courage

People throw in the towel because they don't know how to fight. You'd be surprised how much fight you have in you if you just do it.

I wouldn't want my corner throwing in the towel no matter what. I wouldn't want my corner to do that.

I'm not someone who throws the towel in, although I think there are many times when I could have and should have thrown the towel in, and nobody would have thought any worse of me.

Just because you get punched in the nose doesn't mean that you throw in the towel.

Even on one leg, I thought I could knock Tony Bellew out. I was gutted when Shane McGuigan threw the towel in.

When times are tough I am not one for just throwing the towel in.

If the going gets tough, you stay in there and take your beating like a man. That's what we sign up for, and that's all I meant when I said my corner don't throw in towels.

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.

I remember riding the Space Needle and going up in the elevator and being scared, but thinking, 'This is going to be like going up a launch tower,' and so I would sit there and try to face that fear.

Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers.

My first walk illegally at 20 years old was between the towers of Notre Dame.

As for my all-time sporting hero? There is one who towers above all. I first knew him when he was called Cassius Clay but it was when he changed his name to Muhammad Ali that I became mesmerised by him.

When I was a girl, civil war in Sudan forced me to flee my home town of Wau.

When I was 16, I knew I was gay. I loved a lot. But I lived as a straight guy, because there are people in my town who don't understand my story. I never told. I never wanted to show what was inside my heart.

I wasn't always this confident. Growing up as the awkward gay kid in a small town in Pennsylvania, you're constantly told, 'Don't be yourself, don't be proud of who you are.'

I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.

You have to get over being shy, and just be comfortable with yourself, and I think that for me, if I'd stayed in a small town, I'd be a different person.

I learned about fighting from taking on the National Front skinheads outside Ilford Town Hall in the 70s - they were big men and we were 14 or 15-year-old boys.

I've had gay friends who grew up in small towns in France who had to lie for most of their lives, even to themselves. But eventually such lies become stronger than the people, and they have to face them.

Don't give in to cynicism. It is a toxic spiritual state.

Firemen have the coolest toys ever!

If you are going to take away war toys, then what are you to replace them with? Children need to feel courageous, brave, and assertive. They need to feel strong; that is the purpose of their play.

I can actually trace the moment I decided I couldn't be a doctor. It was in biology, they brought in these African crickets and we were supposed to dissect them - but there's no way I was touching those bugs.

My father taught me you have to believe in yourself and run on your own track.