Quotes About Courage

I am comfortable with being uncomfortable.

I want everyone to know what it's like to be very, very uncomfortable and to push themselves anyway. It helps build confidence when other challenges come up.

I have written things that Republicans and Democrats and all kinds of figures have either hated or felt very uncomfortable about. Because in doing these long projects and books, you get close to the bone. And they're not calling me up and asking me for dinner.

I am uncomfortable with heights, I'm scared of the dark and I am scared of big crowds.

As we approach each of the great social challenges of our time we must acknowledge that old thinking will not provide the new solutions we need. These solutions will be uncomfortable, hard to sell and risky to execute. But the cost of not doing so is even greater.

I want to be uncomfortable - acting is uncomfortable.

Getting to a place of comfort can be uncomfortable.

I don't really feel comfortable unless I'm slightly uncomfortable. I don't want to play myself all the time.

I think the only way you can really grow is if you push yourself and put yourself in uncomfortable positions and doing things that you're not used to; it's exciting.

Sometimes it gets a little uncomfortable to not do everything. That was my modus operandi for many years, but I just feel like I want to do challenging roles.

I like to put myself in the most uncomfortable position.

I understand it's great to read a great book, but it's better to live your life. It just helps me. It's uncomfortable at times, but you have to live outside the circle.

I just care about what I get to unearth and what makes me uncomfortable and what makes me grow because, ultimately, I just don't want to ever play it safe.

Singing in public makes me very uncomfortable.

Everyone has an uncomfortable club in their bag.

I am always interested in making myself as uncomfortable as I can. Sometimes I ask myself, 'Can I stand onstage and sing this song and sell it?' Sometimes I can't. In a room, you get to pretend a little bit and step outside of yourself.

A lot of sport is being comfortable with being uncomfortable.

I spent a good amount of time with David Bowie, and I was talking about getting the band back together. He said, 'Does it make you uncomfortable?' I said 'Yeah,', and he said, 'Good. It should. You should be uncomfortable.'

Women need to be able to speak out if they are uncomfortable or something happened in the past that they were not comfortable with.

Not being able to grow in comfort is a beautiful thing when you're uncomfortable, so just embrace it and roll with it, and you'll come out stronger.

I respect anyone who could take a stagecoach ride from the East Coast to the West. You had to be a very special kind of person to survive that because it's the most uncomfortable ride in the world.

My whole thing is I don't want to break mentally. I want to find comfort in uncomfortable situations.

People want to see politicians who are not afraid to speak the truth. They want them to be honest, no matter how uncomfortable it is.

You've got to be able to hang in there in some uncomfortable pockets and uncomfortable situations, where you're going to take a hit and deliver the football.