Quotes About Courage

I was really scared that I would never be able to date anyone... because there was a huge stigma against drag. But the drive was so strong to do it that I was like, 'I don't care. If that happens, I'm fine.'

The climate is much different for men. That stigma is only going to be broken when people come out and see that there is a positive response. That doesn't mean there will be no negative response, but if people can have the courage to be one of the first, which is very hard, those barriers can be broken down very quickly.

The biggest part of what Anita Hill did was take away the stigma of coming forward, and it took a lot for her to do that. We don't have these conversations, because of the fear that people won't believe you or you'll get attacked if you come forward. She came forward anyway and continued to tell her story.

I still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience.

'Quest' is a romantic name for journey, and I think 'fire' is a word that has stimulating connotations for all of us.

Cancer really stinks.

Big dreams create the magic that stir men's souls to greatness.

Abraham, a simple farmer, at a word from the Invisible God, marched, with family and stock, through the terrible desert to a distant land to live among a people whose language he could neither speak nor understand! Not bad, that!

I think I was one of those kids that I might not fight you if you stepped on my shoes or stole my lunch money or that kind of stuff. But if you picked on a girl or something like that, that would cause me to rear up a little bit.

Prometheus heretofore went up to Heaven, and stole fire from thence. Have not I as much Boldness as he?

In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having the fruits of their little communal gardens stolen by the guards, after they had done all the work; but at the last camp everything was stolen.

I make the decisions nobody else has the stomach to make.

They took my mother's stomach out six months ago.

You might not be able to stomach it, but as long as you can mind it, your heart will be all right.

Of course I've had a bunch of broken bones, sprains and I've had five or six concussions, with three serious ones. I also got a real heavy duty blood clot and internal bleeding from where I was shot in the stomach with a beanbag bullet that the police use for crowd control. I've also had six stitches in my head.

I always wanted to be an actor, but with a speech impediment it's kind of tough. I decided to roll the dice and take an acting class, which was very, very nerve-wracking... my stomach would just be in knots.

I don't have the stomach for 'Fear Factor.'

Fling but a stone, the giant dies.

Women are allowed to exist in this very narrow lane, but as soon as you step out of that lane, people want to stone you.

There is something liberating and defiant about going on stage and saying you are 36 and 13 stone.

I don't want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up.

I'd like my grandchildren to be able to see that their grandmother stood up for something, a long time ago.

We should honor - not attack - those who have stood up for equality and other cherished American values.

Sonny Liston stood up to me and actually made me give ground. No one has ever done that to me before or since.