Quotes About Courage

I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head.

When people look at 'Aadai's posters and say that I've attempted something bold, it actually reflects me being secure about myself.

I know reform is never easy. But I know reform is right.

Only reform and opening up can develop China. We must not be afraid of any risks, and not be confused by any distractions.

Cutting my hair, I feel like I'm going to another level. Cutting my hair was a step for me. Anybody that has had hair for so long, when you're used to something, it's like reforming your life.

Leadership is more than just managing economic reforms. Leadership means giving broad direction, take up challenges which other people cannot do.

I've been involved in politics for quite some time. I've held positions, and my experiences are very deep, and I think I have the capacity, the courage, and the character to institute the kinds of reforms that are so desperately needed.

I probably wouldn't have made it this far if I were a refugee.

I am the face of a refugee. I was once a refugee. I was with my family in exile.

My grandmother - my mother's mother - was a German Jewish refugee, an only child who came here from Berlin in 1936 at the age of 17.

From age six to 12, I lived in seven different countries, moving from one refugee camp to another, hoping we would be wanted.

My father was from East Bengal. Having lost everything to the Partition, he came as a refugee.

We sure didn't feel like refugees, but in hindsight, I guess we were - my father and mother left everything behind to come here - to be safe and give their boys a chance to rebuild a life.

My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.

A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die.

I refuse to bow to the cancel mob.

I refuse to be outworked, and I consider myself to have the heart of a lion.

Refuse to be disheartened, discouraged, distracted from your goals in life.

If we are to achieve freedom, we must do so with a daring and a profundity that refuse to flinch at engaging our destiny.

I love to see heroes who fuel some kind of moral furnace inside them, who are driven to take on the evils of the world, despite the fact that the evils of the world are more powerful than them. And essentially can never be defeated, but they refuse to bow down. And in order to enjoy that aspect of the hero, you've got to put them through hell.

Don't always be so reasonable and practical and sensible that you refuse to seize glorious opportunities when they show up and push the envelope as to what's possible for you.

Just by the nature of making the choice to be true to who I am, I'm political. Sometimes that's all you need to do: Show up and be black, gay and Christian in America and actually say it out loud. And refuse to let anything or anybody take that away from you.

If the civil authorities refuse to protect me, I must look to God, and if I die, I have determined to make my grave in Alton.

I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.