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" You live with the fear people might find out. Then you actually have the courage to tell people and they go, I don't think you are gay. It's enough to drive you crazy. "

Portia de Rossi

Fear

People

Live

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" Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back. "

" Perhaps what distinguishes my characters is their courage and spirit and a certain stubbornness which enables them to keep going even when facing a setback. I think this developed organically as I wrote, but also it came out of a desire to portray women as powerful and intelligent forces in the world. "

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Courage

Keep Going

Powerful

" It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid. "

" It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up. "

Ginnifer Goodwin

Heart

Growing Up

" Change takes courage. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Courage

Change

Takes

" I had a hell of a time convincing people I was gay - which was so annoying! "

" Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. "

" Individual courage is the only interesting thing in life. "

" People say to me all the time, 'You have no fear.' I tell them, 'No, that's not true. I'm scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.' "

" It's very difficult to escape your background. You know, I don't think it's necessary to even try to escape it. More and more, I start to think that it's necessary to see exactly what it is that you inherited on both ends of the stick: your timidity, your courage, your self-deceit, and your honesty - and all the rest of it. "

" Most people talk; we do things. They plan; we achieve. They hesitate; we move ahead. We are living proof that when human beings have the courage and commitment to transform a dream into reality, there is nothing that can stop them. "

Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Reality

Courage

People

" Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience. "

" Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. "

" There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King. "

" Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts. "

" Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear. "

" Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. "

" But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that's where it really started for us. In having the courage to take that decision. To take a gamble not just with our music but our lives. "

" I cannot think of a greater symbol of human resistance and courage than our Nobel laureate colleague Andrei Sakharov. "

" Creativity takes courage. "

" Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues. "

" The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. "

" I'm an exile. My father had the courage to leave with his wife, his mother and three children under twelve. It took more courage to leave, to sacrifice everything for freedom, than to stay. "

" Productive givers focus on acting in the long-term best interests of others, even if it's not pleasant. They have the courage to give the critical feedback we prefer not to hear, but truly need to hear. They offer tough love, knowing that we might like them less, but we'll come to trust and respect them more. "

" He who is brave is free. "

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Free

Brave

" I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself. "

" Everywhere I go, I always look for creative entrepreneurs, whether it's artisans and craftsmen, small farmers and gardeners, or restaurateurs who use fresh, locally sourced ingredients. I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed. "

" If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else. "

Reinhold Niebuhr

Survive

Danger

" Getting past the influence of the fossil fuel industry will take courage, especially on the part of the Republican majority whom they so relentlessly bully and cajole. But we must do it. "

" I'm still shy - I'm no good at my children's parent-teacher conferences, and I'm slowly learning how to ask for what I want. But I now know that I have a reserve of courage to draw upon when I really need it. There's nothing that I'm too scared to have a go at. "