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Quotes About Fearlessness

I guess it really had been brave . . . because it was so bugger-all stupid, and if there was one thing I'd come to realize, ti was that bravery and bugger-all stupidity went hand in hand.
~ Peter David
Long ago I left heroics to the heroes
~ Peter Weiss
We watch Paracelsus in Basle as though seeing a man run headlong toward a precipice. Like an indestructible lunatic, he will do so again and again throughout his life.
~ Philip Ball
I'm just trying to wake up - I'm so afraid of sleeping all my life and then dying - I want to wake up first. I wouldn't care if it was just for an hour, as long as I was properly alive and awake…
~ Philip Pullman
He dared to do what men and women don't even dare to think. And look what he's done already: he's torn open the sky, he's opened the way to another world. Who else has ever done that? Who else could think of it?
~ Philip Pullman
A great man once told me there can be no courage without fear
~ David Gemmell
life without heroic deed is no life at all.
~ David Gemmell
By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism".
~ David Gemmell
I find my greatest strengths in wanting ti be strong. I find my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave.
~ David Levithan
The swim of things. I go on an airplane. I walk under the Empire State Building. I take the bus, and the subway, and am surrounded by strangers the whole time. I certainly have room in my life for caution, but I have no room in my life for paralyzing fear. There's always a risk. There always has been. But I'd rather live my life than die of negations.
~ David Levithan
But this is what losing most of your friends does: It makes you unafraid. Whatever anyone threatens, whatever anyone is offended by, it doesn't matter, because you have already survived much, much worse. In fact, you are still surviving. You survive every single, blessed
~ David Levithan
it's all about falling/you land and get up so you can fall again/it's all about falling/i won't be afraid to hit that wall again
~ David Levithan
We were walking home late from a bar—and the term walking is used loosely here, because you were doing something between a skip and a stumble—and suddenly you started singing out your love for me. My name and everything, loud enough to reach the top floors of all the buildings. I should have told you to stop, but I didn't want you to stop. I didn't mind if your love for me woke people up. I didn't mind if it somehow sneaked into their sleep.
~ David Levithan
I find my greatest strength in wanting to be strong. I find my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave.
~ David Levithan
Todo es tan sencillo que me dan ganas de flotar por el aire. Él se alegra de que lo haya encontrado. Yo me alegro de haberlo encontrado. No nos da miedo reconocerlo.
~ David Levithan
The truth is liberating—but only when you have the courage to live it.
~ Unknown
I'm pretty sure I could tumble down all the stairs in the Empire State Building, naked, with a greased-up pepper grinder in each hand, and a box of candles around my neck, and still end up in the lobby with an empty rectum.
~ David Sedaris
Not everyone wants this conventional little life you're rowing your boat toward. I like my river of fire. And when it's time for me to go I fully intend to roll off my one-person dinghy into the flames and be consumed. I'm not afraid.
~ Zadie Smith
Rightfully she should have been fearful of life. Instead she was recklessly bold.
~ Zadie Smith
the false courage of association with a crowd.
~ Zane Grey
When I've been asked what should be on my gravestone, I've said: 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out.' Two big achievements.
~ Ian Mckellen
I'm not afraid to address anything ever.
~ Metta World Peace
I'm down for adventure and up for anything.
~ Zach Anner
I'm not afraid of anything. That's just the way I am.
~ Paul Walker