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When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will to stop using.
Nearly everything in the scheme of things works to dull a first-rate talent. But the worst probably is cowardice.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities - because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.
There is something so beautiful and inspiring about picking ourselves up with humility and dignity after we fall.
It takes courage to come forward, and I don't want any victim of sexual harassment to think twice about doing so.
The last thing a woman will consent to in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.
I think there's a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask!
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
It isn't courageous to go forth when you don't know the dangers. But it's very courageous to go forth when you do.
Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
The best heroes in the world are the reluctant ones. Courage isn't fearlessness - it's acting in the face of fear.
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
I don't know what kind of courage it took thousands of years ago, but I know how courageous women need to be today.
Basically, discipline, effort, patience and courage are hugely important core values for kids to grow up embracing.
Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.
My student days in PSG saw three Prime Ministers, two wars, taught us courage, resilience, leadership and optimism.
Passion and hard work makes a great player, but the courage to get up every time you fall is what makes a champion.
Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing, let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong... it's Independence Day.
I'm slowly working up the courage to sing in front of other people, but I can carry a tune. I do some mean karaoke.
In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
One should have strength and courage to follow their own truth, speak their own language, fulfill their own dreams.
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.
The more keenly we are awake to the perils of life, the higher and grander is the possibility of being truly brave.
Sometimes you just have to be patient and brave and strong. If you don't know how, just make it up as you go along.
Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.
Music was always a big part of my family. Only a few of us had the talent - or the courage - to walk out on a stage.
Enlightenment is simply sanity~ the sanity in which I see my real situation in the living fabric of all that exists.
The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of.
There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.
There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.
We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures.
Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.
In professional work - certainly in the arts and graphics - 99% of people have zero courage. They blow with the wind.
It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win the final battle.
I'm not intimidated by anyone. Everyone is made with two arms, two legs, a stomach and a head. Just think about that.
The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.
I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.
We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage, freedom and light!
But she wished she had had the guts to go up to him and say hello. Or possibly break his legs, she wasn't sure which.
When you jump across a canyon, cautious small steps and vacillation won't work. Sometimes you just have to go for it.
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.