Quotes About Courage

I told everyone I would never be an actor. People used to tell me, 'Hey, you got a good look. You should try.' And I was like, 'Nah. That's not me.' And then, the moment I tried it, I found I loved it more than anything in the world, and that taught me a lesson. That is, just go for it.

I've been an action buff all my life. For me, action is not complete without emotion, and at the same time it's about heroism more than anything else.

I grew up and had a lot of friends who were gay and Mormon. They couldn't come out to their parents. They couldn't even come out to me because we just wouldn't talk about it.

Everyone is broken; every mortal man or woman is broken in some way, shape, or form.

Just because you've faced your own mortality, it doesn't make it any less frightening.

The dogs with the loudest bark are the ones that are most afraid.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

People wrote the most beautiful things during the ugliest times.

The most important thing for me was to never, ever, ever deny it. But I didn't really have the courage to talk about it. I was thinking, The people who need to know I'm gay know.

Belief is the most important thing in football. Not quality, running, or being strong but belief, faith, and fight.

You always have to believe in yourself! I think that is the most important thing.

Fear, to me, is the most powerful feeling there is - fear.

We are the most powerful creatures on the planet, women.

I've always found that the most powerful way to create change is to be myself and not be afraid to express who I am.

Kids are mostly very resilient.

There is nothing incompatible about laughter and demons, nor about athletic achievement and depression. Mike Flanagan made me laugh, too. But mostly, he made me brave.

It is not the thing you fear that you must deal with: it is the mother of the thing you fear.

My mother and father were never frightened of anything. They always felt that they should go through life happily and without fear, and they did that. And it was a great boon to my brother and myself.

I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn't in her.

Cate Blanchett. Judi Dench. Helen Mirren. Everything about them. Even their fashion choices. They're so with it and cool and women I admire. They take chances. They're chameleons. Everything that they do. They're also amazing mothers.

Strong girls always motivate and energize me.

Haters are our ammunition. They motivate us to continue fighting for our rights. That's why I continue to share my story.

I like fighting people that scare me a little bit. People that scare me seem to motivate me, and when you motivate me, you get the best performance out of me.

Having been a fighter for 25 years, I know how to handle the fear. The fear is there, but I use it to motivate me.