Quotes About Courage

I think just that dog inside of you. When things suck, just to still fight.

No one's ever come up and say 'You suck' to my face. I don't think anyone would ever do that.

'Sucker Punch' is a big girl power movie.

Talk about the area of overcoming adversity, sucking it up, I rate myself a 10.

Sucking up to the biggies won't get us anywhere.

It is hard when you fall. I know that feeling. That disappointment sucks. You've just got to get up and keep moving.

When I was 10 years old, I fled my homeland amid the bomb blasts of civil war in Sudan.

When I first started on television, people, and even my own manager at the time, would tell me I had to make all of these changes. But you have to stand up and say, 'There's nothing wrong with me or my shape or who I am; you're the one with the problem!' And when you can really believe that, all of a sudden other people start believing, too.

I remember secretly going off and crying. All of a sudden I'm being blocked and have to be intimate in a scene, and I'm going, 'I can't even look people in the eye very well. How am I ever going to do this?'

Moving to Liverpool was a new world for me. I had been living with my parents in Holland, and all of a sudden I was living in a foreign country on my own.

As a mom, the minute your baby is born, you all of a sudden have these fears. People always say, 'Don't let your fears get you.' But for me, my fears educated me.

Everything I've done I've always kind of jumped in headfirst, and it's been a learning curve. Even MuchMusic, I had never done live television before, and all of a sudden you show up, and they're like, 'You ready kid? Let's go.'

It's not like I came out in 'Rolling Stone' and all of a sudden I had a closet full of all the clothes I want.

To all of a sudden go from feeling almost invincible to being temporarily paralyzed to then having rods and screws in my neck and not really being able to move around to seeing my body change, I definitely, definitely, definitely did not feel myself at all.

It's a matter of facing your fears. Going where you're not comfortable, after you do it so many times, and you have so many heavy, heavy experiences, then all of the sudden it becomes normal.

All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it was like having spent a lifetime in a boxing ring with an opponent and suddenly finding yourself in that boxing ring with nobody else and realising you've to take the gloves off and get out, and reinvent yourself.

I remember June 8, 1972. I saw the airplane. And it's so loud, so close to me. Suddenly, the fire everywhere around me. The fire burned off my clothes. And I saw my arm got burned with the fire. I thought, oh, my goodness, I get burned. People will see me different way.

When I am made fun of in the press I just remember those days when I'd come home to find that the water had been turned off because my mother couldn't afford the bill. Suddenly, everything feels easier.

Instead of doing what everybody else does and sue the city of Los Angeles, I decided I was going to run for mayor.

I've been sued, harassed, abused, but I've held my own.

I'm a real man. I can suffer.

I don't suffer of anything that I've lost.

I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently.

That might have a lot to do with it, but you know, I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else.