Quotes About Fearlessness

I would say my sense of adventure outweighs my grace.

I'm grateful to all the non-risk-takers.

I've found the best way is to not be scared of the attention but to be grateful for it and open to it. It makes my days better rather than being annoyed that people want my attention.

It takes a great deal of courage to love.

The great thing about being young and dumb is that you don't know what you can't do.

The great thing about Roald Dahl is he tackled the big questions of life without any fear of being shocking or brutal, because he knew the kids could take it.

It's never a matter ever, ever - are - we're never trying to gross anybody out, or ever are we trying to shock people. We're just trying to make it funny in a way that makes the audience go, 'You know, that was the first joke they thought of, and they weren't afraid to do it.'

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grown older.

I'm just very confident at all times. I've always been like that, no matter who's guarding me or who I'm on the court with.

The apprehension whether people will like it or not also doesn't bother me much. I've always done my work with a gut feeling that this is what I would like to do and I've always enjoyed doing it.

The most important thing I tell my players is to play their own game and show guts.

I like guts in my leaders.

If I am to choose two words that best describes myself, they are 'self-esteem' and 'guts.' Guts helped me become a global model.

What I like about my son is he's got guts.

Let the other guys do the crybaby stuff. Go for the laughs.

I've bombed on stage millions and millions of times. And that's part of it. You go up with a half-baked idea, and you bomb, and so what? Nothing bad happens if you bomb.

I am not afraid, he said to himself.

Russel] might not make it, he might die on the ice, but he would not die with fear. He would die working not to die...

What I like most about Buddhism really is its fearlessness. So much of what warps people is fear of death and fear of impermanence. So much of what we do is simply strategies to try and hold back death, trying to buy time with material things. So at its best Buddhism provides people with a way of seeing their own frailty: you need less in the way of material objects and fortresses around yourself.

I used to face charging lions in the Serengeti with nothing more than a stone axe and a loincloth. People today disappoint me.

To go into a game wondering, 'What if I do this wrong?' is a terrible way to think. You just have to believe in what you can do.

I don't lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

Risk isn't a word in my vocabulary. It's my very existence.

Valor' is a word we don't commonly hear. People can show courage and bravery confronting many different challenges in life. But 'valor' connotes willingly putting oneself in mortal danger to protect others.