Me Quotes

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I'm willing to show you. In you, it's courage and daring. In me, it's weakness.

~ Brené Brown

My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.

~ John Bunyan

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.

~ Erma Bombeck

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

~ Oscar Wilde

I can muster up the courage in the difficult situations to get me through.

~ Megyn Kelly

To me, having the courage to tell your own story goes hand in hand with having the curiosity and humility to listen to others' stories.

~ Sarah Kay

There are looks that I see on other people that I think would look horrible on me, but I think if somebody has the courage to be really daring and try something outlandish, then more power to them. That's just encouraging and inspiring.

~ Blake Lively

The first thing out of Fidel Castro's mouth to me, he looked me right in the eye and said, 'You're a man of great courage.'

~ Jesse Ventura

In the two novels I have published, it was my fortune at different times, and from different persons, to hear the most unqualified censure long before it was possible for me to hear the voice of the public. But my temper was not altered, nor my courage subdued.

~ William Godwin

For me, Arik Sharon - I remember his courage and inspiration. I want to remember him the way he really was, not as an aging 80-year-old man living in bed helpless and unconscious.

~ Ehud Olmert

People say, 'You have inspired me, you've given me courage...' They've gone so far as to say, 'You've changed my life!' And I would come back and say to my husband, 'I can't understand it - what kind of poor little life did she have if I had to come and change it?'

~ Iris Apfel

I'm sick of all these labels and these manufactured subdivisions of music that don't even exist. And even though I'm pierced myself, I'm sick of everyone equating body piercing with musical courage. If you ask me, it takes a lot more than that.

~ Jeff Buckley

For years, I was watching other people have so much fun playing out their version of authorship, like Louis C.K. and Larry David. As I watched them do their thing, I began to pine for the days when I had a lot less expected of me and, often, a lot more creative freedom. The courage that those guys have is always captivating to me.

~ Jon Favreau

People have responded to my stories so well. They come up after a show and say things like, 'Your album really helped me,' or 'I have stage four cancer. I'm terminally ill.' Somebody told me it gave them the courage to die.

~ Tig Notaro

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.

~ William Hurt

Being able to hear someone say, 'I found an incredible job on The Muse,' or 'It gave me courage to make a career change,' that's the motivating factor.

~ Kathryn Minshew

Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.

~ Caitlin Moran

I like to go see films that give me courage and hope.

~ Isabelle Adjani

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

To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.

~ Janeane Garofalo

Something like riding a horse - which I've recently started doing - requires courage, especially for me, as I started out being actually scared of horses.

~ Mary Gaitskill

I embraced everything that I thought would hold me back from pursuing my dreams and used my insecurities to give me the courage to inspire and advocate for others who possessed many of the same insecurities I had.

~ La'porsha Renae

I love actors that are brave, that are courageous. And courage to me is not the absence of fear, it's the presence of fear, and they go to places that really scare them, because as an audience, that's where you feel danger.

~ Derek Cianfrance

You've got to find a way to relate to people. I just did an improvised episode for Joe Swanberg's new Netflix show, 'Easy,' and it was a huge learning curve for me and taught me so much about fear and courage. But when you're present in the moment, the audience, it's incomparable.

~ Gugu Mbatha-Raw

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.

~ Ben Okri

I very much admired Lancaster. George Clooney reminds me of him today. Not all the macho, swinging around that Burt used to do, but the courage. You know where you stand with men like that.

~ Norman Lloyd

The most important thing for me was to never, ever, ever deny it. But I didn't really have the courage to talk about it. I was thinking, The people who need to know I'm gay know.

~ Portia De Rossi

Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no.

~ Jose Carreras

My father took one of the toughest jobs in the government because he cared about his nation more than himself. His courage and conviction have always driven me to want to make a difference.

~ Pardis Sabeti

I tell people that we must have the courage to share what we feel, but no one follows me.

~ Tadashi Yanai

I have decided to make a personal message to David Haye. I want him to fight me, to be a man. I wish there will be enough excitement, pressure and courage for David Haye to fight me.

~ Wladimir Klitschko

A member must say that he is a member of the Unification Church and that he is the follower of Sun Myung Moon. If he doesn't have the courage to say it, he is not worthy of me.

~ Sun Myung Moon

Now that I've got some films under my belt, I have the courage of my convictions regarding acting. It gives me a leg to stand on.

~ Mira Sorvino

People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.

~ Gabrielle Giffords

Give me an entrepreneur with a lot of courage, gusto and who iterates rapidly, and I will back that person day in and day out.

~ Douglas Leone

Paul persuaded me to join the band. I would never have had the courage otherwise. It was fun at the beginning. We were playing just for fun, with Paul's group.

~ Linda Mccartney

All I needed was the courage to be me. That courage took a lifetime to develop.

~ Jimmy Scott

I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me.

~ Peter Carey

When I was 16 the first girl I had a crush on wasn't interested at all. I liked her from afar for ages, and when I eventually got the courage and told her, and she wasn't into me.

~ Luke Pasqualino

Iwas not a reader at all, not until I discovered 'The Hobbit.' That changed my life. It gave me the courage to read. It led me to the 'Lord of the Rings' series. And once I'd read that, I knew I could read anything because I had just read thousands of pages.

~ Richard Paul Evans