Quotes About Fearlessness

Back then, and even now, I wonder: Am I "empowered"? If you have to hide your hypersensitivity, are you really a "strong woman"? Sometimes another voice enters my head, shooing these thoughts aside. This one tells me that the only really good performance is one where you make yourself vulnerable while pushing beyond your familiar comfort zone. I liken it to having an intense, hyper-real dream, where you step off a cliff but don't fall to your death.

to overcome my own hypersensitivity, I had no choice but to turn fearless.

For me performing has a lot to do with being fearless.

When I loved myself enough, I let the tomboy in me swing off the rope in Jackass Canyon. Yes!

The true test of bravery is demonstrating moral courage. In applying this test you will likely find more cowards than not.

You harm her, and so help me, I'll defy death itself to rip your heart out. (Ewan)

I'm talking about allowing others to see you as you truly are, embracing them in all of their imperfections without fear, and remaining true to them come what may. I'm talking about connections that run so deep, it no longer matters where you end and they begin. Some find it in marital love, others in friendship. Both are worth risking.

To those of you who are sticklers for safety and approach life with all the caution of amateur beekeepers, I can offer no excuse for what I did then. I'll admit that a more mature human being would never have let her curiosity take control. Thankfully, I was twelve years old and fully prepared to meet the challenge at hand.

Fucking witch. You say that as if it's an insult,

I need just be a bayonet, a bayonet named Diving Punishment. I wish I'd been born a storm. Or a menace. Or a single grenade. No heart, no tears, just as a terrible gale'd have been good. If [by doing this] I become that, then so be it.

Think of all the fabulous things that have happened in the world because someone has just done it-you know, just jumped off the cliff and worried about the dangers when it's all over.

I think I'm a bit less inhibited, and not thinking too much before speaking. It's not about being shameful, I'm just a bit more unabashedly myself because of this thing, and it probably started at age 15. I can be around people and say what I think without fear.

A warrior never worries about his fear.

Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.

You want the truth, Master Skilley? Then find out just what manner of cat you really are... and brazenly, unabashedly, boldly, be that cat.

One thing time has not removed from me," she wrote to Grover, "the last toughness of youth, and that is to live alone. I am glad of that; I would be scared to death if I found I was really needing people." One

I have nothing to lose and think that it's a positive thing that I am young and playing on a good level.

You have the eyes of a doe and the balls of a samurai.

The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.

It was by Anandamayi Ma: "Be anchored in fearlessness. What is worldly life but fear!

You have put me in here a cub, but I will come out roaring like a lion, and I will make all hell howl!

The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.

I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass.

Tessa touched his wrist lightly with her hand. "Be brave," she said. "It's not a duck, is it?