Quotes About Fearlessness

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.

That was indeed to live -- at one bold swoop to wrest from darkling death the best that death to life can give.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Like in combat when you're in chaos, a Navy SEAL in chaos, you cannot be afraid of dying for a cause.

Being gifted needs courage.

What's the point of being negative or fearful? We can't control it.

Failure doesn't scare me. And neither success. I am equally detached to both.

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

I've played the Royal Albert Hall to 8,500 people, and there wasn't a nerve in my body.

I love playing women who have the nerve to do things that I don't have the nerve to do, and Berta is certainly one of those.

I'm really lucky that I can control my nerves; it doesn't seem to get to me.

As I've got older, the nerves aren't there anymore; they just left one day when I was at Watford. I only feel excitement now, whatever the game.

My first show was in front of 30,000 people with will.i.am, and I wasn't even that nervous.

I don't really get nervous.

I'm never nervous around anyone, which I think is a real key to my success. I was never nervous around anyone!

At first, I ain't gon' lie, I used to be a little nervous about what people were gon' think about my music, but once I let that go, then everything started happening.

I'm not nervous standing with anyone.

I don't believe in having safety nets - you'll end up using them!

The will to never give up and to be fearless. That's what I have.

But once I went for it, left my inhibitions aside and saw its eventual success, it made me much more comfortable and eager THIS time around to take it to a whole new level.

Being told to get out, not being afraid to fail and try new things - that really makes a difference.

I want to show everyone that you can do what you want, don't be afraid to try new things.

My instinct was that it was Sidney's childhood in the Bahamas that gave him the fearlessness to fight racism. So this documentary was a kind of rounding out of what had begun in that scene in In the Heat of the Night.

There was no freer soul in the world than me at age nine.