Quotes About Courage

Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, Gandhi — all these people described themselves as quiet and soft-spoken and even shy. And they all took the spotlight, even though every bone in their bodies was telling them not to.

Busting out of your comfort zone might be the most fun thing you ever did — after you get over the idea that you have to be safe, appropriate, perfect, right — or that you have to be anything.

But a strange thing happens when your worst nightmare is realized: nothing much is left to scare you.

There is a saving grace in truth which helps truth-tellers through the worst of their troubles, and Katy found this out now.

To see hundreds of people come out in the cold at the University of Missouri to block a few so-called Christians who came to protest against me shows you how love conquers hate.

'Shakti' is not a run-of-the-mill daily soap.

Who has to have a soapbox when all you've ever needed is your voice?

I have no desire to get on a soapbox or be preachy. I don't think comedy needs to be 'brave' or 'important.'

Sometimes you're gonna jump off a cliff and land flat on your face. Then you just get up and go again. But sometimes you dive off the cliff and start soaring with the eagles, and that's when you find new music, places that you've never been before.

I don't feel pressure, I think there's fun to have. And I want to show that being gay and of color doesn't have to be a sob story all the time. It can actually be really jokes and empowering.

I think a lot of people are scared, and I know I was scared to get sober, at least using this as an excuse; 'I don't want to be one of those sober people.' And I don't think you have to be. I think you can be one of those people who happens to be sober.

At the beginning of me getting out of rehab and thinking about going back to work, I was scared because I didn't know if I could do this clean and sober.

When I got clean and sober, that was a major change in my life.

I'm very proud of my sobriety now.

I was a soccer player, but everyone said I was too physical so I moved over to football.

People want me to shut up, but I won't. I believe social change is possible; that's why I'm an activist.

The fact that, for so many generations, ordinary, everyday Americans came out of the closet and told their family and friends about who they are has laid the foundation for public sentiment to change. They got comfortable in their own skins to be able to share themselves with family and friends. This is where social change took place.

I've learned over time that human beings tend to want to do more than they have the courage to do or that the social contract will allow them to do.

Whether you want to do a letter-writing campaign or a march or start a social media hashtag - whatever it is - know that there are people out there that are thinking exactly like you're thinking and are also afraid to take that next and very important step.

Those of us who are today prepared to hazard our lives for the cause would regret having raised a finger, if we were able to organize only a new social system and not a more righteous one.

Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a socialist.

Communism is a way of thinking. Socialism is wimpy communism. When you don't have the courage to become a communist, you become a socialist.

It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced.

My first ballet class was on a basketball court. I'm in my gym clothes and my socks trying to do this thing called ballet. I didn't know anything about it.