Quotes About Fearlessness

What kind of life was it, to sit dumbly in the dark, in living fear of death? Better to go out and face it, head-on.

Besides, if you're going to die horribly, you might as well do it with style.

and if you want to know where all the good guys are, we're standing right in front of you, lacking the balls to actually make ourselves heard.

Enrique Vila-Matas

Meditate then, on all these things, and on those things which are related to them, both day and night, and both alone and with like-minded companions. For if you will do this, you will never be disturbed while asleep or awake by imagined fears, but you will live like a god among men. For a man who lives among immortal blessings is in no respect like a mortal being.

Screw it. Bring on that sorry dragon! Comes down to it, I'll bet Hrundig knows a recipe for cooking the mangy beasts.

That's an amazing feeling, to walk onstage, and you're not thinking about anything, you're not thinking about your lines or what you're supposed to do - your body, your brain knows, so there's freedom. There's not fear, there's not nerves.

Second-baseman Eddie Stanky spoke for the whole team when he shouted at the opposing dugout: "Listen, you yellow-bellied cowards, why don't you yell at somebody who can answer back?

audacity of zero

Bit by bit, system by system, those small investments added up to a robust product development process that allowed all our employees to work more creatively, with greatly reduced fear.

This is not an end. It is a beginning. You will need the courage of a lion to face this journey.

Your gift is not a burden," she whispered. "But you must be brave, because it has more power than the sharpest claw...

I must have ice in my veins to do what I just did. I expect the ice to melt...But it doesn't. It just gets colder and colder...And I welcome it.

is the warrior's greatest weapon

With this life, I give you courage. You will know how to use it.

With this life I give you courage. Fear will always pull at your tail, but the courage I give you now will always draw you on.

With this life I give you courage

As long as you're by my side, I'm ready for absolutely anything.

insouciance. But there's just something uniquely intimidating about

People often ask me if it's scary to make up a song onstage, dictating parts, on the fly, to a full orchestra. Well, no. It doesn't occur to me to worry about that. I have a jazz musician's view of mistakes. If you play a wrong note, you can always make the same mistake again on purpose and make it sound right. Insistence on the mistake can be quite musical. Indeed, "once is a mistake, twice is jazz," a quote often attributed to Miles Davis.

My people are the Hill People. They are the men. I go into the Dead Places but I am not slain. I take the metal from the Dead Places but I am not blasted. I travel upon the god-roads and am not afraid.

It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.

Desde que te quiero -a su amigo decía-, no tengo miedo a nada, ni a los toros ni a los ladrones. Me siento valiente hasta al heroísmo, y ni la serpiente boa ni el león de la selva me harían pestañear.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.