Top 100 Quotes About Fearlessness
#1. But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children.
Arianna Huffington
#2. Even fear itself is frightened by the bodhisattva's fearlessness.
Chogyam Trungpa
#3. With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself.
Hugh Jackman
#4. Genuine fearlessness arises with the confidence that we will be able to gather the inner resources to deal with any situation that comes our way.
Matthieu Ricard
#5. Audacity is an insolent form of boldness, especially when imprudent or unconventional. It implies a degree of impudence, but also fearlessness and intrepid daring.
Mike Cernovich
#7. I love that Viking era, but also they're a fatalistic people and that dictated their fearlessness in battle and approach to life.
Chris Hemsworth
#8. The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#9. His impunity thrills me, I mistake it for fearlessness, though years later he will admit to being afraid all the time.
Nick Flynn
#10. Whatever this fearlessness, this strength, this difference was, she was starting to like it.
Melissa Marr
#11. Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.
George Lois
#12. Babe Ruth was not afraid to strike out. And it was this fearlessness that contributed to his remarkable career.
Simon Sinek
#13. Fearlessness presupposes calmness and peace of mind.
Mahatma Gandhi
#14. God's vision is a call to move forward into the future in the full operation of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness, and self-control, with a fearlessness that could only come from him.
Sarah Bessey
#15. Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister.
Mahatma Gandhi
#16. too. Your face when you came back from diving that time told me everything; there is a hunger in you, Clark. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do. I
Jojo Moyes
#17. Conscience, resolve, loyalty, the kind of far sight that Mia wanted, the fearlessness to cross strange borders, whatever it was that gave Alice the guts to stick up for herself when Tweedledum and Tweedledee informed her she wasn't real.
Helen Oyeyemi
#18. The components of happiness are quite simple. Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now. In its true form each quality includes all the rest, for happiness is whole, and one feels whole when genuinely happy.
Hugh Prather
#19. Warriorship does not refer to making war on others. Aggression is the source of our problems, not the solution. Warriorship is the tradition of human bravery, or the tradition of fearlessness.
Chogyam Trungpa
#21. She was the oddest combination of contradictions he'd ever met -innocence and sensuality, candour and diplomacy, anxiety and utter fearlessness. He hadn't even begun to figure out how her mind worked. But she was damn well going to live long enough for him to try.
Karen Chance
#22. Fearlessness comes from working with the softness of the human heart.
Chogyam Trungpa
#23. Nothing will ever take away the power and resolve and fearlessness of the great city of Boston. We will get through this. It will take time. But we will get through this.
Joey McIntyre
#25. We cannot be fearful all the time; we have to rise above our fear, whatever is to happen to us, however our conditions may challenge us. To be fearless is a decision that one must make. And this fearlessness becomes the fundamental ground of nonviolence.
Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
#26. Fearlessness isn't a place your reach. It's a commitment you make.
Robin Sharma
#27. For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us.
Audre Lorde
#28. If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the Upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word "fearlessness."
Swami Vivekananda
#29. What people see as fearlessness is really persistence. Because I am focused on the solution, I don't see the danger.
Wangari Maathai
#30. These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness, and worship without awareness.
Anthony De Mello
#31. Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness.
Mahatma Gandhi
#32. My mother, who taught me how to read and write and home-schooled me for the first 12 years of my life, whose presence shaped me as much as her absence did, who imbibed in me the values of empathy and fearlessness and hard work, looks down on me today with great pride.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#33. These eight independent satellite states of the psychopathic personality
Machiavellian Egocentricity, Impulsive Nonconformity, Blame Externalization, Carefree Nonplanfulness, Fearlessness, Social Potency, Stress Immunity, and Coldheartedness.
Kevin Dutton
#34. I think that young British designers have a kind of fearlessness in they way they approach fashion.
Monika Chiang
#35. My instinct was that it was Sidney's childhood in the Bahamas that gave him the fearlessness to fight racism. So this documentary was a kind of rounding out of what had begun in that scene in In the Heat of the Night.
Lee Grant
#36. If spirituality is not religion or cynicism or sentimentality or narcissism, then what is it? ... we can confidently say ... that spirituality is fearlessness. It is a way of looking boldly at this life we have been given, here, now, on earth, as this human being.
Elizabeth Lesser
#37. The way I was grew up gave me a slight fearlessness and a sense of independence. There are things about it that have definitely informed me. And then, as a parent, it's done the opposite. It's made me feel much more protective. There are boundaries in my kids' lives that I don't think I had.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
#38. Part of the popularity with Louis Farrakhan has less to do with the content of his message and more to do with the form that he portrays himself - as being a free, black person who speaks what is on his mind with boldness and fearlessness. Who is willing to pay the consequences.
Cornel West
#39. I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.
Harold Brodkey
#40. Before we can aspire to guide the destinies of India, we shall have to adopt the habit of fearlessness.
Mahatma Gandhi
#41. Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.
Jack Nicholson
#42. The greatest gift for an individual or a nation ... was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#43. The proper artistic response to digital technology is to
embrace it as a new window on everything thats eternally
human, and to use it with passion, wisdom, fearlessness and joy
Ralph Lombreglia
#44. Politics was put in front of me. I do politics because it's the vehicle for change and because I happen to be good at it ... I had this sort of calm fearlessness, that some would call foolishness.
David Mixner
#45. Bravery is fearlessness-the absence of fear. The merest dolt may be brave because he lacks the mentality to appreciate his danger.
Napoleon Hill
#46. Dance training can't be separate from life training. Everything that comes into our lives is training. The qualities we admire in great dancing are the same qualities we admire in human beings: honesty, courage, fearlessness, generosity, wisdom, depth, compassion,and humanity.
Alonzo King
#47. The first and most important step is to realize that, as my mother used to say, fearlessness isn't the absence of fear, but the mastery of fear. It's not that you never have fear, but that you don't let your fears stop you.
Arianna Huffington
#48. Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it.
Tobias Wolff
#49. Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon.
John Green
#50. Maybe I should give up and go back the way I came. But I stay. I detest fear. I hate being scared. There is only one path to fearlessness. It's the one that leads into the mysterious center of the terror.
Peter Hoeg
#51. I'll tell you the truth - I went to a women's college, Barnard, the most selective college for women in America today. If there's one thing I came out of Barnard with, because it was a women's college and a great institution of higher education, it was fearlessness.
Anna Quindlen
#52. Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
Stevie Wonder
#53. Bravery means doing something scary. Fearlessness means not even understanding what the word scary means.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#54. The experience of a sad and tender heart is what gives birth to fearlessness.
Pema Chodron
#55. There was just this amazing individuality. It's just a whole different world of optimism and fearlessness, women taking off their bras and dancing around naked, and a political hopefulness and involvement.
Jill Clayburgh
#56. Elegance means appreciating things as they are. There is a sense of delight and of fearlessness. You are not fearful of dark corners ...
Chogyam Trungpa
#57. One of the greatest gifts from God is the eternal perspective. It is a level of fearlessness, a level of understanding where one can experience even emotional harmony with God.
Criss Jami
#58. Fearlessness is extending ourselves beyond our limited view.
Chogyam Trungpa
#60. Acknowledge your fear, odd one. Fearlessness is for the insane and the arrogant. You are neither. Those who rely on you for their lives will be well served only if you fear what you should fear. You are a unique soul, a child of grace, but you can still fail yourself and others.
Dean Koontz
#61. All the time, circumstances are not going to favor us. We shall have to
face obstacles and adversities. Fearlessness is the first virtue of a hero, the
starting point of all other noble virtues.
Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar
#62. The purpose of Yoga is to facilitate the profound inner relaxation that accompanies fearlessness. The release from fear is what finally precipitates the full flowering of love.
Erich Schiffmann
#64. There is something about boldness and fearlessness and being free enough to speak what is on one's mind that warrants freedom.
Cornel West
#65. I was always proud about being from Texas and, you know, maybe that was part of fearlessness. I love the fact that Texas is so big, but you don't feel small because of that.
Sissy Spacek
#66. One of the inspiring things about Susan Sarandon career is that there's a quality of real fearlessness in it - you seem to be in it for the challenge and the experience.
George Saunders
#67. Dream Bravely.
Find fearlessness inside of you. Dare, and fear will falter. Challenge, and fear will flee. This is the beginning of your dream-making.
Carew Papritz
#68. Mama is the greatest teacher, teacher of love, fearlessness and compassion.
Stevie Wonder
#69. Ahimsa is the height of Kshatriya dharma as it represents the climax of fearlessness.
Mahatma Gandhi
#70. I have a strange combination of fearlessness and massive insecurity.
Penny Marshall
#71. Fearlessness at twenty springs from not knowing challenges lie ahead. Fearlessness at fifty comes from having wrestled with life's challenges and learned from them.
Kathleen Turner
#72. The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure
fearlessness and achievement.
Joseph Campbell
#73. It's the unbridled passion and the fearlessness to just go into something with reckless abandon that allows you to create something from nothing. That allows you to innovate. That allows you to take things to the extreme.
Paul Heyman
#74. Fearlessness is better than a faint-heart for any man who puts his nose out of doors. The length of my life and the day of my death were fated long ago.
Kevin Crossley-Holland
#75. Don't wait until you're not afraid of something to do it. Do it despite the fear and you'll start to develop a 'fearlessness muscle'.
Arianna Huffington
#76. Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.
Hugh Prather
#77. There the old Eskimo hunters she had known in her childhood thought the riches of life were intelligence, fearlessness, and love. A man with these gifts was rich and was a great spirit who was admired in the same way that the gussaks admired a man with money and goods.
Jean Craighead George
#78. Fearlessness requires attention and receptivity-it takes focus to stand in the still eye of a tornado and not be swept away by it.
Susan Piver
#79. 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.
Arianna Huffington
#80. Courage is doing what is needed despite one's fear. Without the fear, it's merely . . . fearlessness." He
Alissa Johnson
#81. As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#82. Mental toughness is many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness and meekness is the sign of true strength. Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.
Vince Lombardi
#83. If you have decided to change the world, don't read the books about the dimensions of the world! Be like a meteorite; strike the world with your ideas with utter courage and with infinite fearlessness!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#84. A calm mind releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion, fear into fearlessness, and hatred into love.
Eknath Easwaran
#85. The best way for us to cultivate fearlessness in our daughters and other young women is by example. If they see their mothers and other women in their lives going forward despite fear, they'll know it's possible.
Gloria Steinem
#86. The ground of fearlessness is fear. In order to be fearless, you have to stand in the middle of your fear.
Larry Rosenberg
#87. WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE WOMEN THAT HAVE MADE A REAL DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD THROUGHOUT HISTORY, WHAT THEY'VE DONE HAS ALMOST ALWAYS BEEN DEFINED BY FEARLESSNESS. STOP LOOKING OVER YOUR SHOULDER - THERE'S NOBODY WHO MATTERS BACK THERE.
Anna Quindlen
#88. I loved him so much, loved his fearlessness, his strength, even the ambition that would someday take him away from me.
Lisa Kleypas
#89. The good news is that as fragile as fearlessness may be, it is also a personal quality that we can foster in ourselves.
Gerhard Casper
#90. As with all great teachers, his curriculum was an insignificant part of what he communicated. From him you didn't learn a subject, but a life ... Tolerance and justice, fearlessness and pride, reverence and pity, are learned in a course on long division if the teacher has those qualities ...
William Alexander Percy
#91. Your face when you came back from diving that time told me everything; there is a hunger in you, Clark. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
Jojo Moyes
#92. There is more to fearlessness than merely having overcome fear ... This state of being is not dependent on any external circumstances. It is individual dignity ... that comes from being what we are, right now.
Chogyam Trungpa
#93. Even if kids don't love gymnastics, if they start at any age with some classes, they can learn so many different things - they can build a lot of character, strength, flexibility, and courage. Hopefully, they can also develop a sense of fearlessness.
Nastia Liukin
#94. The best heroes in the world are the reluctant ones. Courage isn't fearlessness - it's acting in the face of fear.
Tess Gerritsen
#95. To an Earthkeeper, love is not a feeling or something your barter with. Love is the essence of who you are, and it radiates from you as a brilliant aura: You become love, practice fearlessness, and attain enlightenment.
Alberto Villoldo
#96. Mad fearlessness is not courage. The only requirement for courage is a good heart.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#97. Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.
Guy Finley
#98. Fearlessness comes with the birth of this new understanding: The only reason life changes as it does is to reveal the secret Goodness underlying those same changes.
Guy Finley
#99. A master of tone and texture and an authority on the bizarre, Karen Russell writes with great flair and fearlessness.
Carlo Wolff
#100. Mental toughness is Spartanism, with all its qualities of self-denial, sacrifice, dedication, fearlessness, and love.
Vince Lombardi
