Quotes About Courage

I don't operate under threats. Full stop. I don't. I don't buckle to pressure.

I have had fatwas issued against me, some three in Bangladesh and another five in India. I will not be cowed by these threats and shall fight for my rights.

Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights.

Threats mean nothing to me.

As a lawyer, many a time I took up difficult and sensitive cases dealing with minorities' and women's rights. Yes, I constantly receive threats, and to be very honest, at times it is very scary. But I have to continue my work.

I am facing threats. But I believe that death is preordained - when you are meant to die, you will die.

I receive more threats than I could count; it's almost every week.

Because the state I was in, contesting elections with Azam Khan, as a woman, with acid attack threats, threat to my life... I couldn't even tell my mother if I would come back alive whenever I left from home.

I come from Varanasi. Abuses, profanities and threats don't bother me. I am 6-foot-tall guy and I can take care of myself.

Sporting cannot be subjected to fear, blackmail and threats.

Life hits you hard. But it takes you three seconds to decide if you are a superhero or not. I am.

You'd think a guy who has broken 35 bones in his body would have a high pain threshold, but mine is pretty low. I got hit in the shin with a golf ball once, and it almost brought tears to my eyes. I've had broken bones that didn't hurt as bad.

I think I have got a decent pain threshold.

I might have been a jockey, you know. I started by riding horses bareback and holding on to the mane before they finally threw me off.

Once, when I was 5 years old, a little girl who lived next door to my grandmother dared me to put on a muumuu and run across a nearby parking lot. So I did. I threw it on, hiked it up in one hand, and ran like hell. It felt amazing to be in a dress. But suddenly my grandmother appeared, a look of horror on her face.

Once I became the editor of the school newspaper, I had a key to the school, and I went to the school cafeteria and just took the food they threw away.

I like trying things, I am kind of adventurous and I like thrill seeking.

It's quite a thrill to be playing a hero.

There is always that extra bit of thrill when you try something new, you get into it thinking you have nothing to lose, at the most you will fail.

I'm not a thrill seeker.

Looking back, one of the things I love most about my mom was that she never, ever relented. She stuck to her guns right up until the end. She wasn't abusive, but she was never that thrilled that I was gay.

I do this maneuver, my finishing maneuver. It's called the 054, and it's a 450 splash, but it's going backwards. I know my opponents aren't going to be thrilled to hear this, but I don't know what I'm doing up there. I literally close my eyes, and I just jump, and my body just takes over, and thankfully I haven't hurt anybody.

When the militias came to Wau, they would blast out 'Thriller' as they moved down the dirt streets.

'Raazi,' for me, is a human story - it's much more than just a spy thriller.