Quotes About Courage

People are starting to go on about my weight but I'm not going to change my size because they don't like the way I look.

I feel the weight of just telling the truth. There really is no weight to telling the truth. It's a little scary sometimes, but if you tell the truth, you don't have to be looking over your shoulder.

I don't think I could've carried the weight that Murrow carried.

One of the things I like best about 'Biggest Loser' is being around people who are trying to make the right choices. When you feel defeated about your weight and your health, like there's no hope, and you still make the choice to fight for it, to make the change happen no matter what people say or think, that's inspiring to me.

The thing is, when I feel like I have to lose weight, the opposite happens. I remember stuffing loads of chocolate on the plane to the shoot, and I thought, 'Why don't you have the courage to show up in a body that's natural, not overly worked out?'

When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.

I just go where it feels the most honest to go; then I deal with people thinking it's weird afterwards.

There was no way to focus on the movement of the cable. If I looked down at the cable there was water moving everywhere. And if I looked up there was heavy mist blowing in front of my face. So it was a very unique, a weird sensation.

It's always weird when you see a movie, and there's no reason for someone to, like, jump on stage and be a singer, and then they just do that... But if it came organically, I would grab that mike and jump on stage for sure.

I'm always frightened away by movies that lower the bar on our endeavor to learn more about the crazy weird creatures that we are.

I was always so scared to sing in front of people. That was kind of my weird thing.

That grit of fighting is addictive, I'm scared of it. It's a very weird thing.

It's hard to see yourself as a princess because it involves a huge leap of the imagination and sort of requires you to believe you can be that, which is a scary, weird thing.

I have that weird thing where, if someone confronts me, I just get as bold as possible.

It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.

I am that weirdo that chooses the difficult route down the side of the street.

I'm not some weirdo depressed daughter that's afraid of the world - that locks herself in her room all day.

I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.

The moral effect of the thundering of one's own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us thought that we had never heard any more welcome sound than the deep roaring and crashing that started in at our rear.

If you are fearful, a horse will back off. If you are calm and confident, it will come forward. For those who are often flattered or feared, the horse can be a welcome mirror of the best in human nature.

Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.

Since we all know that death is inevitable, I don't really see the difference between dying now and dying a decade later. So if I'm threatened with assassination, I welcome it!

There is pressure on me, but I welcome it.