Quotes About Courage

When I was a kid, and for many years after, I was your classic afraid-to-dance-type person.

My first performance was in AP Calculus when they forced me up into the front of the classroom and made me sing a song, which was really scary, but it was fun.

Luckily, I am not at all claustrophobic.

I'm crazy. I know I'm crazy 'cause Desmond Tutu told me, and he's very clever. He said, 'You must free yourself, be more of who you are. Be more crazy.' And I'm going to.

To move past fear is a cliche.

This is going to sound so cliche, but I believe this through and through: Don't be afraid to be yourself.

Breaking cliches for women has never been easy.

My first climb was on lead; there were pitons, no bolts.

I do not climb really dangerous stuff.

Many of my hardest climbs were done with one or both feet barefoot.

Albert Frederick Mummery and Chris Bonington are the British climbers I most admire.

Climbing is what I do.

I grew up rock climbing.

For me, fighting is just so fun; I love it. It's just what I enjoy doing, and for me to go out there and go wake boarding and go rock climbing and then turn around and go fight, how awesome is that?

The art of climbing is to go where you go knowing that you could die, but you don't die. That is adventure.

I do know I've lived through a bunch of things that people would maybe prefer I keep behind closed doors.

The people I'm inspired by and I listen to are all ballsy, and I feel like I'm closer to an artist when they're open and honest.

We're only human, and fear can eat away at you the closer you get to a big fight.

I don't have anything against homosexuals, but 'Cigano' needs to get out of the closet.

For so long, for my whole life I didn't have to but I lived in the closet.

As I was coming out of the closet, our car was hurtling over an embankment.

Once I came out of the closet, it was sort of that thing of 'The truth will set you free.'

I didn't want to stay in the closet to get work. I wanted to be out whether it affected my career or not.

It's a wonderful side effect of what we're doing, to give someone the strength to come out of the closet to their family, or simply present themselves aesthetically in a way they feel happy with, whether or not their friends are going to be allowed to like them anymore.