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Quotes About Fearlessness

to inspire his men, wont about among the plague-stricken soldiers, touching their wounds with his bare hands. He said that the man who had no fear would never be stricken with the plague. he believed that the mind is master of the body. If there was over a believer in the almost omnipotent power of the mind and of the will, it was Napoleon.
~ Orison Swett Marden
They're so brave, she said. They're all dead. Only a coward would think of that, she said scornfully.
~ Orson Scott Card
If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?
~ Confucius
The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear.
~ Confucius
Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.
~ Confucius
The wise never doubt. The Humane never worry. The brave never fear.
~ Confucius
The wise are free from perplexities; the virtuous from anxiety; and the bold from fear.
~ Confucius
A wise man is never cheated, a virtuous man is never worried and a courageous man is never afraid.
~ Confucius
When I was nineteen—which was, oh, Lord, forty years ago, it doesn't seem that long—my sister and I traveled all over Egypt," she said. "It was during the Pandemic. Quarantines were being slapped on all about us, and the Israelis were shooting Americans on sight, but we didn't care. I don't think it even occurred to us that we might be in danger, that we might catch it or be mistaken for Americans. We wanted to see the Pyramids.
~ Connie Willis
Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.
~ Cornelia Funke
Look at your daughter,' she whispered. 'As brave as...as.. She wanted to compare Meggie to a hero in some story but all the heroes she could think of were men, and anyway none of them seemed to her brave enough for comparison to the girl standing there, perfectly straight, scrutinizing Capricorn's Black Jackets, with her chin jutting out defiantly.
~ Cornelia Funke
She reminded me of some of the women I'd known in the Middle East, brave fuckers who'd managed to look like a million bucks even as their cities were being pounded to gravel around their pretty shoulders, fearless beneath their hijabs and glamorous even when they were covered in dust and blood.
~ Cory Doctorow
I didn't say no because between safety and adventure I choose adventure.
~ Craig Ferguson
A Chief must show no fear, no worry... A Chief is a leader first, and a man second...
~ Cressida Cowell
Are you the stuff that hero's are made of? Or are you a jellyfish in a skirt?
~ Cressida Cowell
And they fear nothing, and they respect nothing, the young don't.
~ D. H. Lawrence
I believe in having a good heart, a chirpy penis, a lively intelligence, and the courage to say shit! in front of a lady.
~ D.H. Lawrence
Oh, intellectually I believe in having a good heart, a chirpy penis, a lively intelligence, and the courage to say "shit!" in front of a lady.
~ D.H. Lawrence
The world owes its progress to the men who have dared
~ Dale Carnegie
Be honest, frank and fearless and get some grasp of the real values of life… Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
That's what life's all about Dolores, climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.
~ Wally Lamb
Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass, Be not afraid of my body.
~ Walt Whitman
Long have you timidly waded Holding a plank by the shore, Now I will you to be a bold swimmer, To jump off in the midst of the sea, Rise again, nod to me, shout, And laughingly dash with your hair.
~ Walt Whitman
Caution seldom goes far enough.
~ Walt Whitman