Quotes About Courage

Professionally, I'm a perfectionist, and to allow people to see that maybe I wasn't always perfect or put together - that my actual personal life was very messy at times... it was scary to let people know that.

I didn't think it would be possible for me to do music professionally. I was afraid to speak up and say I wanted to become a musician.

Young professionals shouldn't have to let a fear of failure hold them back; they should feel emboldened to take on challenges in creative ways.

I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.

If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.

I'm willing to lose profits in the short term.

Most simply but profoundly, I chose to live an honest life, which I think as a gay person is not a given.

As a daughter of a former NAACP chapter president, I know all too well how everyday people can change lives and create progress so many others consider 'impossible.'

And people who take risk intelligently can usually actually make a lot more progress than people who don't.

My mother was progressive in her thinking.

The Americans I know are not willing to abandon our police and our great Democratic experiment to the pathetic cowardice - or worse - of the progressive Left.

Ambition alone cannot define a progressive female character.

No matter what it is, pick yourself up and go on to the next project.

You shouldn't be afraid of failure - when something fails, you think, 'What did I learn from that experience? I can do better next time.' Then kill that project and move on to the next. Don't get disappointed.

'Whiplash' scared me. I feel you should only do projects that scare you to some degree. I get motivated by those sorts of feelings.

There are very few music projects like 'Border,' that you get to work on in your lifetime.

I love to be in projects that take risks.

Prince led by example. As prolific as he was as an artist, he was just as courageous in the business.

I felt fine after 24 hours and asked the state commission to prolong my stay in space to three days. And I carried out the entire schedule. Could I have done that if I had been half-dead?

I wasn't dreaming of freedom when I escaped from North Korea... I was willing to risk my life for the promise of a bowl of rice.

Real heroes are those who face death for a principle - say, to save the lives of others - without any promise of reward.

I believe in the power of millions of courageous conservatives rising up to re-ignite the promise of America.

I jumped out of an airplane on my 34th birthday because I promised myself I would. I have an interest in confronting my fears.

I promised myself that I wouldn't be afraid to be who I was when I chose to do this music thing.