Quotes About Courage

Sometimes my body wakes me up and says 'Hey, you haven't had pain in a while. How about pain?' And sometimes I can't breathe, and that's hard to live with. But I still celebrate life and don't give up.

I'm just authentically, unapologetically myself. In and out of drag, in and out of the gig, in and out of the studio. My friends know. Miss Thing Over There wakes up 8 A.M. and she's on. The sun, the rain, the snow, whatever's going on outside, I'm ready.

'The Outlaw Josey Wales' is one of my top three movies.

My heart was bursting with pride the night I fought Steve Robinson in Wales, and I made the champion look like the challenger.

It used to hurt me when people said I was hiding in Wales.

Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith.

Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.

I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe.

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.

You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.

I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.

I do what I feel is right. I am not scared to walk on the new path and take risk.

The older people that one admires seem to be fearless. They go right out into the world. It's astounding. Maybe they can't see or they can't hear, but they walk out into the street and take life as it comes. They're models of courage, in a strange way.

People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.

It takes a great person to walk away from money.

It's the only way I think I'm ever going to walk away from the game, is to go ahead and say I'm going to, and then I've got to. There's no turning back now - win, lose or draw.

I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.

I don't know how others think about me, but if I have to walk the streets, I will, and if I need to stand in a queue at the airport, that's OK.

It's easy to walk away from risk, and you don't actually have to face it. Success is based upon overcoming the inherent risk you can't manage your way out of.

I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.

I'm one of those very confident people who just forgets about fear and gives it to somebody else. I get into that ring, and I walk round, I hear my music, and then I start buzzing.

You know, sometimes I feel like I walk around with a target on my back with the films I make.

A woman can walk miles without making one single step forward. As a child born in a harem, I instinctively knew that to live is to open closed doors. To live is to look outside. To live is to step out. Life is trespassing.

A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it.