Quotes About Courage

At 14, 15 years old, I started reading 'Backstage' regularly. Eventually, I got enough courage to look at the auditions section.

I have met women who said, 'I started reading you when I sat in the chemo chair, and it made me feel better.' That is as humbling as it gets, to know that you, in some way, made the worst day of their life a little bit better.

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we're also starting to be really brave.

It's interesting when you've been a partner with someone for so long. So now to sing solo and starting all over again I am learning that I am more bodacious than I thought. I don't know where it's coming from but I am glad.

I was scared of the devil starting around age nine. Before that, I was gathering every family member in the living room, slipping a shirt over my robe so the bottom hung like a skirt and performing Gloria Estefan songs with feverish intensity.

When you're playing music and you're starting to expose yourself for the first time, there's nothing more powerful than being listened to and being actually heard.

I don't really like scary movies. I mean, I didn't as a kid, but I think I got a bit better now. I've been easing myself into it, starting off with the less spooky ones.

Everything about starting out in comedy is pride-swallowing, from handing out fliers to bombing in front of audiences.

You shouldn't be fearful of starting over.

When I first saw Dick Gregory on television, growing up in Queens, it was startling and amazing, because nobody else was doing what he was doing.

Every journey starts with fear.

Persistence pushes me to be bold and seek out the opportunities I've wanted. It starts by envisioning what you want, no matter how big or small, and believing that you can achieve it.

Follow your curiosity, and have the courage to meet the challenge. That's where science starts, in my opinion.

It's good to have butterflies. And they always go away. The camera starts rolling and they go away and it's all good.

I think it's important for the public to know, great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts.

Getting anything off the ground is going to require a little bit of risk. That risk starts with sharing the idea.

Everything starts and finishes with the soldier.

Revolution is something that actually starts in individual hearts.

You want people who choose to follow because they genuinely believe in ideas, not because they're afraid to be punished if they don't. For startups, there's so much pivoting that's required that if you have a bunch of sheep, you're in bad shape.

The Freedom Riders literally put their lives and limbs on the line in order to bring about an America that lives up to its own stated ideals. They are nothing short of American patriots, and honoring them more than 60 years after their historic acts is the least we can do.

The beard is a statement to say that you can achieve anything, no matter who you are or how you look.

As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: 'And that's the way it is.' To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue.

There are only a few times in a man's life where you have the chance to stand up for something that you believe in and make a statement.

I sing in Arabic as a statement. It's art, and it's a challenge.