Quotes about Fearlessness

Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone, and as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

What sets lion chasers apart isn't the outcome. It's the courage to chase God-sized dreams.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

The greatest want of the world is the want of men-men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.

May the Children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other Inhabitants; while every one shall sit under his own vine and fig tree, and there shall be none to make him afraid.

We must substitute courage for caution.

But the erotic offers a well of replenishing and provocative force to the woman who does not fear its revelation, nor succumb to the belief that sensation is enough.

For our face and body were beautiful. Our face was not like the faces of our brothers, for we felt not pity when looking upon it. Our body was not like the bodies of our brothers, for our limbs were straigth and thin and hard and strong. And we thought that we could trust this being who looked upon us from the stream, and that we had nothing to fear with this being.

I told him never to be afraid to come up with an idea or a hypothesis no matter how daft (his words not mine) it might seem.

Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.

I love acting, and I'm not going to determine what I do based on what I fear other people might think. I do what I want to do.