Quotes About Courage

I want you to be with me in the dark. To hold me. To keep loving me. To help me when I get scared. To come right to the edge and see what's there.

I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.'

I feel liberated, empowered, inspired and motivated. Fear holds you back from achieving what you want in life.

If the careers want me, let them find me.

If you want me you're going to have to come and get me.

Live your dream. Know what you want to do and never take no for an answer.

I feel like I've been in love, but I have stood aside from it over and over again in my life. It's all you want, but it's terrifying.

The time is just right to take risks and tell stories the way we want to tell them.

There is a percentage of people who want to be a little bit outside their comfort zone and I am one of them, someone who lives on the edge.

I'm saying what a lot of people would want to say but are too embarrassed.

Hearts were made for being broken. There's really no way around it if you want to be a human being.

I actually write some pretty tough jokes. I don't want to push the "soft" angle too much.

I have gotten death threats - that was scary. But it just made me want to use my voice more.

People are afraid, people don't want to be rejected.

You can call me the bad boy chef all you want. I'm not going to freak out about it. I'm not that bad. I'm certainly not a boy, and it's been a while since I've been a chef.

A lot of the time, people want to hear from someone like myself. They want to give it a shot. It's challenging, and it's driven me more than discouraged me.

It's the hardest thing in the world - to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kinds of courage.

A lot of people are afraid to succeed and don't want to fail but if you don't attempt, aren't you already failing in the same spot?

A lot of people simply don't realize their potential because they're just so risk adverse. They just don't want to take the risk.

Playing Etta James in the movie 'Cadillac Records' really changed me. It was a darker character, and I realized that if anything is too comfortable, I want to run from it. It's no fun being safe.

Freedom isn't about having permission to do whatever we want... it's about having the courage to do whatever fills our life with meaning.

If people want go-along, get-along politics, I am not their guy.

Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.

Bruce Lee was the first guy to bring film recognition of Asian men not being wimps, so it made me want to be as powerful as he was.