Quotes About Fearlessness

Even if that something blew up in my face, I figure running toward is still better than running away

Clement said it was like conditioning, prepar-ing for the ball-clutching moments of life while building your sphincter muscle. After lying in front of a freight train you can lie in bed in your underwear while two cops are visiting, asking about a certain black Buick—and while a mean-looking Walther P.38 automatic is hidden nearby at that very moment—and not worry about making doo-doo in the bed.

Ah! si ton mari mourait... Si mon mari mourait..., répéta lentement Thérèse. Nous nous marierions ensemble, nous ne craindrions plus rien, nous jouirions largement de nos amours... Quelle bonne et douce vie!

Since they dared, I too will dare.

We've braved its ghosts often together, and dared each other to stand among the graves and ask them to come. But, Heathcliff, if I dare you now, will you venture? If you do, I'll keep you. I'll not lie there by myself: they may bury me twelve feet deep, and throw the church down over me, but I won't rest till you are with me. I never will!

No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere: I see heaven's glories shine, And faith shines equal, arming me from fear

No coward soul is mine.

No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere...

If your Nerve, deny you— Go above your Nerve— He can lean against the Grave, If he fear to swerve— That's a steady posture— Never any bend Held of those Brass arms— Best Giant made— If your Soul seesaw— Lift the Flesh door— The Poltroon wants Oxygen— Nothing more –

If your Nerve, deny you – Go above your Nerve –

Adventures always come to the adventurous, there's no doubt about that!

I don't tell untruths. I think it's being a coward if you don't tell the truth – and I'm not a coward.

The craft's occupants clutched their armrests, and more than one of them closed their eyes. But not Artemis. He couldn't. There was something morbidly fascinating about flying into an uncharted tunnel at a reckless speed with only a kleptomaniac dwarf's word for what lay at the other end.

He was the point dog, sent in to check for hostiles. His orders were simple. Bite everything. If it screamed, it was hostile.

It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance

They may kill me, but they cannot hurt me. —Socrates

It is better to live with one free man and to be without fear and free, than to be a slave with many.

Apropos of which, Diogenes says somewhere that one way to guarantee freedom is to be ready to die.

if you know you are in the right, why fear those who misjudge you?

Diogenes says somewhere that one way to guarantee freedom is to be ready to die.

Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.

You can't respect yourself if you're afraid to be who you are.

American girls never whimper.

Don't be so timid! When you were a child, didn't you speak out the truth that the oldest ones kept secret? Well, you were right then. You must find the time of innocence in yourself again, because that was also the time of courage.