Quotes About Courage

I had people having prayer circles for me at the age of 10.

Through prayers I get the strength to face all the difficulties.

I believe in my prayers.

A lot of praying helped me a lot.

I remember being in my house from when I was, like, five to when I was, like, 12. When hurricanes would happen, you just hold hands, and you say, 'You know what, we have each other. We're praying,' and this roof can literally peel off of your house.

I think adversity hits people and we all know what to do when adversity hits we keep praying and we find hope.

Preaching is the most original thing I've ever done. There's nothing familiar about it. You have to be brave.

I preach in countries if I say 'Jesus Christ is the only way, the truth and the life,' they'll arrest me.

I'm little. I'm pale. I'm not strong. But bad things are scared of me. I think it's because my dad was a preacher growing up, and I was raised in the Church of Christ.

I came out when I was 15 at school, and I realized I had put myself into a precarious situation. It was a very hostile environment for me, and a lot of kids had it in for me. It was a scary situation. I was very impatient. I wanted to grow up now.

To represent the Latin American people - especially Latin American women... there's not many of us fighting. To be one of the ones that are able to set a precedent and to fight in Mexico is really amazing.

Life is too precious to worry about what other people are saying or what they think.

The abuse of faith has to be resisted precisely.

It is, in fact, precisely to defend the right to free speech that countless patriots have given the last full measure of devotion.

It sounds precocious, but I knew that I had to listen to my own inner voice and ignore what everyone else was saying, even my mum.

There were certainly more conventional and predictable paths that I could have taken in life, but I believe in being true to oneself and following the thing that sets your soul on fire. For me, that is music.

Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.

I prefer adventure to comfort.

I have a lot of admiration for people willing to face the public, but I'd prefer not to.

I never run away from things but confront them, and I preferred to stay on the periphery of Mumbai film industry.

You always pray for a healthy child, and in this situation, Naieya was born with Spina Bifida... We had choices on the table, and choices to terminate the pregnancy. We could have went on with our lives, and that would have been it, but we decided to take on the challenge.

I liked the idea of being the kind of woman who'd go to the Gobi desert pregnant.

I came out at 16 years old as a proud, gay man. My last girlfriend in high school - when I was 15 - became pregnant with my child but did not tell me.

The image of a pregnant woman embracing her figure and really putting it out there can be scary to some people, but I don't let that stand in my way, and I don't think other women should either.