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Quotes About Fearlessness

You shout because it makes you brave or you want to announce your recklessness.
~ Don DeLillo
We have learned not to be afraid of the dark but we've forgotten that darkness means death.
~ Don DeLillo
God is guts" — a pre-Hemingway and pre-Hammett apothegm of toughness — is from the hobo ballad "The Little Red God
~ Unknown
Wyobra? sobie ?ycie bez l?ku przed podejmowaniem ryzyka i poznawaniem ?wiata. Nie boisz si? czegokolwiek straci?. Nie boisz si? ?y? i nie boisz si? umrze?.
~ Don Miguel Ruiz
Machines are braver than art.
~ Donald Barthelme
You can't be scared, you do your thing, you hold your ground, you stand up tall, and whatever happens happens.
~ Donald Trump
We looked at each other. And it occurred to me that despite his faults, which were numerous and spectacular, the reason I liked Boris and felt happy around him from almost the moment I'd met him was that he never afraid
~ Donna Tartt
And it occurred to me that despite his faults, which were numerous and spectacular, the reason I'd liked Boris and felt happy around him from almost the moment I'd met him was that he was never afraid. You didn't meet many people who moved freely through the world with such a vigorous contempt for it and at the same time such oddball and unthwartable faith in what, in childhood, he had liked to call "the Planet of Earth." "So—
~ Donna Tartt
despite his faults, which were numerous and spectacular, the reason I'd liked Boris and felt happy around him from almost the moment I'd met him was that he was never afraid. You didn't meet many people who moved freely through the world with such a vigorous contempt for it and at the same time such oddball and unthwartable faith in what, in childhood, he had liked to call "the Planet of Earth.
~ Donna Tartt
It has been always a rule with me to go straight at everything. I think the best diplomacy is directness, and that the truest caution lies in courage.
~ Unknown
Oh kid, it's all about confidence. That's the whole shebang right there. Whatever you do, do it with your nuts. That's how Ruth swung a bat-with his nuts. Court a girl, rob a bank, brush your teeth, do it with and from your God-given nuts or don't do it at all.
~ Unknown
What if they're waiting for us out there?" Jason asked, his voice echoing oddly in the tunnel. "Then you and I are going to go through them like a stampede through a weak fence," Kira said. "What happened to the Kira who didn't think she could do anything much?" "Kira doesn't have the luxury of self-doubt at the moment.
~ Jack Campbell
Without bravery, we will never be able to realize the vaulting scope of our own capacities. Without bravery, we will never know the world as richly as it longs to be known. Without bravery, our lives will remain small - far smaller than we probably want our lives to be.
~ Jack Gilbert
Gandhi, who exemplified inherent virtue for modern times, stated, "Let then our first act every morning be to make the following resolve for the day: 'I shall not fear anyone on earth. I shall fear only God. I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.
~ Jack Kornfield
I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.
~ Jack London
And how have I lived? Frankly and openly, though crudely. I have not been afraid of life. I have not shrunk from it. I have taken it for what it was at its own valuation. And I have not been ashamed of it. Just as it was, it was mine.
~ Jack London
We range the day And mount the sun. We soar past the rim of the world, And know not caution nor fear. But too soon the night comes. –Sigma Hotel
~ Jack McDevitt
Don't look so scared.
~ Jack Nicholson
I know I am capable of loving to the full capacity, of not being frightened of loving too much, of giving myself up and over
~ Jackie Kay
It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.
~ Jacqueline Cochran
I wanted to climb into her world and live in it with her. She was beautiful and kind and funny and identified as "certified crazy." I learned that certified crazy meant nothing to lose, nothing to be afraid of, nothing to be self-conscious about.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things.
~ Jacques Maritain
Don't be afraid of your dreams.
~ Jacques Parizeau
He was a very valiant man who first adventured on eating oysters.
~ Unknown