Quotes About Courage

The only really good performance is the one where you make yourself vulnerable, while pushing beyond your familiar comfort zone.

For me performing has a lot to do with being fearless. I wrote an article for Artforum in the mideighties that had a line in it that the rock critic Greil Marcus quoted a lot: "People pay money to see others believe in themselves." Meaning, the higher the chance you can fall down in public, the more value the culture places on what you do. Unlike, say, a writer or a painter, when you're onstage you can't hide from other people, or from yourself either.

I like being in a weak position, and making it strong.

to overcome my own hypersensitivity, I had no choice but to turn fearless.

For me performing has a lot to do with being fearless.

but I couldn't decide if I was a courageous person in real life or whether I could only sing onstage. In that way I haven't changed much in thirty years at all.

if you have to hide your hypersensitivity, are you really a "strong woman"?

People pay money to see others believe in themselves." Meaning, the higher the chance you can fall down in public, the more value the culture places on what you do.

Here's what I've learned: When you stand at the lip of something, you're already there.

Always play your decoy hand so people won't get the chance to see you fail at that which is closest to your heart.

Never underestimate the power of the out-on-a-limb gesture.

Kim Gruenenfelder

What are you?" I rasped. It smiled. "Whatever scares you.

She quoted First Lady Eleanor Franklin: "Do at least one thing each day that scares you.

Pull yourself together and land on your feet because it's better than landing on your head.

Jamal takes a long breath. A tear slides down his cheek. When he squares his shoulders, my heart bursts with pride. He won't let them break him.

When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn't healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs and habits - anything that kept me small. My judgement called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving.

When I loved myself enough, I let the tomboy in me swing off the rope in Jackass Canyon. Yes!

The motivation to share our faith does not rise from courage but love.

Mad' sounds dashing, daring and admirable when you hold the tattered flag in the midst of battle and expired natives lie all over the carpet with holes in 'em that you put there. 'Mad' is less impressive written on a form by a commissioner of lunacy as you're turned over to the hospitallers of St Mary of Bedlam to be dunked in ice water because your latest 'scrape' was running starkers down Oxford Street while gibbering like a baboon.

I write the truth because I love it and because there is no living creature whose anger I fear or whose praise I court." ~ Nellie Bly, The Evening World, 1895

learn to lean on God. If 'n you don't, you's gonna come across a day when yo' strength ain't enough. An' you'll just go all to pieces. But if you got God's strength, chil', then you'll always have the strength you need, no matter how hard thangs git.

The true test of bravery is demonstrating moral courage. In applying this test you will likely find more cowards than not.

You never need a green light to stand up for what's right.