Quotes About Fearlessness

The writer ended with a line from Eudora Welty: "All serious daring starts from within.

What is always needed in the appreciation of art, or life, is the larger perspective. Connections made, or at least attempted, where none existed before, the straining to encompass in one's glance at the varied world the common thread, the unifying theme through immense diversity, a fearlessness of growth, of search, of looking, that enlarges the private and the public world. And yet, in our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins

Like, sick as she is, if a snake cross her path, she kill it.

He say to tell the truth, Shug act more manly than most men. I mean she upright, honest. Speak her mind and the devil take the hindmost, he say. You know Shug will fight, he say. Just like Sofia. She bound to live her life and be herself no matter what.

You have far more courage than you think you do.

Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.

Hiding is for amateurs.

If you don't think I'm a princess then you're 100% right, I'm the fucking queen.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; … Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; … Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.53

He seemed to remember a sense of fearlessness as a child, for lacking the knowledge of death, he supposed, for still believing bad things happened only to other people. How long you held on to that particular belief depended on where you were born.

Bravery is the dead man's virtue.

No one had the answers. Worse. There weren't any. The best you could do was play a long con and act as if you had them. Never show fear. Never show doubt.

No armour.' Yon was helping Brack into his mail, shaking his head as he frowned over at Whirrun. 'What kind of a bloody hero don't wear bloody armour?' 'Armour …' mused Whirrun, licking a finger and scrubbing some speck of dirt from the pommel of his sword, 'is part of a state of mind … in which you admit the possibility … of being hit.

A merész önfeláldozással az a gond, hogy merészségre van hozzá szükség és önfeláldozásra.

Hard words are for fools and cowards. Stour might be both, but you're neither.

and you have to have fear to have courage.

You must be quicker to strike and quicker when you do. You must be tougher and cleverer, you must always look to attack, and you must fight without honour, without conscience, without pity.

Live pretty or die laughing, but don't you run. Don't you fucking run.

Size and strength didn't intimidate Herman. As he told me later, no matter how big they grow, balls and eyes stay soft and a tire tool has no friends.

Dígalo con confianza "Sí que podemos decir con toda confianza: 'El Señor es quien me ayuda; no temeré. ¿Qué me puede hacer un simple mortal?'". HEBREOS 13:6

I will bring you to utter stillness, because you will simply be mine. I will take your soul, chain it to me, and you will never fear anything again.

The mountain cannot frighten one who was born on it.

If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.