Quotes About Courage

If you fight back and get hit, it hurts a little while; if you don't fight back it hurts forever.

It hurts when people put you down.

You cannot allow whether someone likes you or not to alter your course of action. Sometimes I think, 'Sure, that hurts my feelings.' But it's not so important that I will adjust what I'm doing because someone is not going to like me.

They put a picture of me on a magazine's cover and wrote 'Mahima had an accident. She's got scars all over the face. We can actually call her scarface.' It still hurts me.

I don't think it's exaggeration or hyperbole to say that Pedro Zamora changed the world.

I'm not afraid to use Christ as an icon.

Playing Frida was hard and wonderful. I found such a force in her, bigger than me. I tried to make it just a woman who had to do what she did. A woman who lived, ate, and laughed. I tried to avoid the 'icon' of Frida Khalo.

'Mulan' is an iconic story for the Asian American community.

I went through real darkness, but the ring was my light. That was the one place I felt safe. I could control what happened in the ring. My heart turned icy.

I've always wanted to play Don Quixote in some way. It's a great role. I think the idealism of the man shows that hope that we have in the human breast to achieve something.

People sometimes are afraid to be who they are because of other people's ideals.

It is people like Chandrashekhar Azad and Bhagat Singh who should be the ideals.

The established politicians, who before the war preached national pride and Christian love, were the first to collaborate with the Germans. But the communists, who as children we'd been taught to fear, kept a resistance movement alive, living and dying true to their ideals.

Too many times we just think about our ideas, and we let people convince us not to do it.

I don't identify with her, but I highly admire Eleanor Roosevelt.

I've worked a lot with kids who identify as LGBTQ or gender nonconforming, and they are unquestionably some of the bravest people I've ever met.

I don't cover my face because I want to show my identity.

I think everybody faces challenges in their lives. I've definitely been through it - not to the extreme that Astrid did. I try to keep some kind of identity and strength.

People call me a whole lot of things, but above anything else, I'm a fighter, and it's going to be hard to accept an identity without that.

I'm not afraid to look like an idiot.

Any opportunity I get, I want to make the most of it, and I'm not afraid to look like an idiot.

You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'

I consider myself a fearless idiot.

People who weren't there can say it was idiotic or shortsighted, but when you're in a moment where horrible things are happening in front of you, sometimes you just need to act on what's best.