Quotes About Courage

I'm not scared of Bayern Munich.

When I first joined with Murphy, I had to make a character change. I wasn't confident in myself about that at all, but I remember my mom telling me that once something clicks with me... I had to... come in and kick the door down and let everyone know who I am.

For me, imagination is more important in climbing than muscle or daredevil antics.

Being able to hear someone say, 'I found an incredible job on The Muse,' or 'It gave me courage to make a career change,' that's the motivating factor.

I want to be a little bit brave. I want to feel scared sometimes. That's what's going to change the music business, if we have that kind of attitude.

I've been through a lot in the music industry, in life. I've learned that I have to be tough in this world.

I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.

In the world of musical theatre, if everyone says it's a good idea, you wonder why nobody has done it before.

Once you get everything out of your head about what everybody else is going to think, will radio play it - and I hope they do, I really do - once you shed all of that and just be who you are, that's who I am. That's taken a lot of growing up. I've come into myself musically and as a woman, and I hope to keep growing. If you don't grow, you die.

I'm a completely fearless musician.

Muslims must speak out and explain who they are, what they believe in, what they stand for, what is the meaning of their life. They must have the courage to denounce what is said and done by certain Muslims in the name of their religion.

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.

Say what you know, do what you must, come what may.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

Our first job is to go out there and fight - not to do backflips or have a mustache.

You have to muster a certain amount of belief that you're not making a mistake and you're not a fool. And this means you have to have faith.

My friend Harry Nilsson used to say the definition of an artist was someone who rode way ahead of the herd and was sort of the lookout. Now you don't have to be that, to be an artist. You can be right smack-dab in the middle of the herd. If you are, you'll be the richest.

I don't really go with the crowd. I'm the kind of person that if I heard some girls were bullying my friend in another school, I would go to that school by myself and try to have a fight with a hundred girls.

Coming out as a Barbra Streisand fan was way more embarrassing than coming out as a lesbian. To be an artist of my generation willing to be unhip - artists were supposed to be like cowboys.

If you're going through a hard time or if you've experienced a miscarriage, so many women have come up to me and said they went through the same thing, and they never wanted to talk about it, so I hope my journey can help you and that you can find God in my life.

I think getting rid of my leg was getting rid of the past and getting ready for my journey ahead.

You can all get what you want to get, and so my journey was to show you how many times along the way adversity has stared me right in the face, and I've looked it right back and said, 'No.'

I think I'd be lying if I said it didn't help me in my journey with everything to play someone like Diana. She was so openhearted to everything and explored so much.

My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.