Quotes About Fearlessness

Cojones: testicles; a valorous bull fighter is said to be plentifully equipped with these. In a cowardly bullfighter they are said to be absent.

Being free of psychological time, you no longer pursue your goals with grim determination, driven by fear, anger, discontent, or the need to become someone. Nor will you remain inactive through fear of failure, which to the ego is loss of self. When your deeper sense of self is derived from Being, when you are free of "becoming" as a psychological need, neither your happiness nor your sense of self depends on the outcome, and so there is freedom from fear.

To face that savage mountain of onrushing ferocity, to stand unshaken before the hideous fangs that he knew were bared in slavering blood-thirstiness, though he could not see them, required nerves of steel; but of such were the nerves of Carthoris of Helium.

They journeyed far and the white bear said, Are you afraid? No, she replied. I am not afraid.

And for always getting what she wants in the long run, commend me to a nasty woman.

I am even more certain that to create dangerously is also to create fearlessly, boldly embracing the public and private terrors that would silence us, then bravely moving forward even when it feels as though we are chasing or being chased by ghosts…

Vedi, non c'è coraggio e non c'è paura... ci sono soltanto coscienza ed incoscienza... la coscienza è paura, l'incoscienza è coraggio.

For some heroes, nothing is impossible

My soul has ever abhorred the thought that a free man dared not speak the truth.

Only the brave lie here.

Alexander Woollcott

Life is to be entered upon with courage.

So, go on rising, sun, you don't frighten us. We don't care about your many miles, your diameter, your volume. Warm sun, just rise, bright light, arise. You are not big, you are not small, you are happiness.

Make the videos that you want to watch. Don't think about who is going to be upset or offended.

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

In the world of creativity, laziness translates into an inability to be rigorous enough to create fearlessly. It makes us plagiarise or water our creativity down to make it more acceptable to the public.

I've jumped out of an airplane 34 times. I've dove 212 feet under water. I've done a lot of things that defied death.

Bring it on - we all cook with water, I'm not scared of anyone.

I don't want to die in a car accident. When I die it'll be a glorious day. It'll probably be a waterfall.

In the midst of choppy waters, Missourians are fearless.

I am a gambler. I decided to go in with Company E in the first wave.

I wanted to be the first to ride a 100-foot wave.

Well, it was - big wave surfing was my job. And I had to accomplish some great feat every year. And we kept finding bigger and bigger waves until there was no wave too big.

When I took off on nearly vertical waves that no one else would touch, people assumed I had no fear. When they watched me suffer epic wipeouts then come up smiling, it was decided I had a screw loose.