Quotes About Fearlessness

There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain...Providence appears to protect such women, maybe out of astonishment.

Can't play it safe, can't play at all any more

If you're going to be wrong, at least be hot.

Don't be a goose!

You've been brave so long Scarlett. You just gotta go on being brave.

a woman not to be afraid of something.

Peace had failed her and Ashley had failed her, both in the same day, and it was as if the last crevice in the shell had been sealed, the final layer hardened. She had become what Grandma Fontaine had counseled against, a woman who had seen the worst and so had nothing else to fear. Not life nor Mother nor loss of love nor public opinion. Only hunger and her nightmare dream of hunger could make her afraid.

It's about focusing on the fight and not the fright.

If you spend too much time worrying about how other people perceive you, you'll never break the rules.

With vision there is no room to be frightened. No reason for intimidation. It's time to march forward! Let's be confident and positive!

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down.

Time makes you bolder, children get older. I'm getting older, too.

When you think of me as a football player, I would like for people to think that I put it on the line every time. Good or bad, win or lose, I put it on the line.

Yet, every time God's children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened.

Though I have had no adventures, I feel capable of them.

We write to expose the unexposed. If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. The writer's job is to turn the unspeakable into words - not just into any words, but if we can, into rhythm and blues.

If we stay where we are, where we're stuck, where we're comfortable and safe, we die there... When nothing new can get in, that's death.

A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing; it doesn't protect itself and it doesn't hide.

We write to expose the unexposed. If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise you'll be rearranging furniture in rooms you've already been in. Most human beings are dedicated to keeping that one door shut. But the writer's job is to see what's behind it, to see that bleak, unspeakable stuff, and to turn the unspeakable into words -- not just any words, but if we can, into rhythm and blues.

Keep walking, though there's no place to get to. Don't try to see through the distances. That's not for human beings. Move within, but don't move the way fear makes you move. Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don't open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

And so we must arm ourselves with tongues of flame.

Somewhere a man answers courage with courage

When the heart is flooded with love there is no room in it for fear, for doubt, for hesitation.

But he was too proud and too ambitious to be a coward. He had grasped what he wanted without flinching.