Fearless Quotes - Page 20

• In The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson turns 'making the personal public' into a romantic, intellectual wet dream. A gorgeous book, inventive, fearless, and full of heart.

  Kim Gordon

  Dream, Book, Heart

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• The golden rule is to act fearlessly upon what one believes to be right.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fear, Believe, Golden

  Mahatma Gandhi, M. S. Desphande, Arun Gandhi (1999). “The way to God”

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• Caring what others think about us is normal. The desire to belong is basic to human nature. But in order to feel like you truly belong, you must accept yourself for who you are. This is critical to Fearless Living.

  Rhonda Britten

  Caring, Thinking, Order

  Rhonda Britten (2002). “Fearless Living”, p.33, Penguin

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• Society, in the aggregate, is no fool. It is astonishing what an amount of "eccentricity" it will stand from anybody who takes the bull by the horns, too fearless or too indifferent to think of consequences.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Thinking, Bulls, Fool

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 9), 1858.

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• He is the real Guru Who can reveal the form of the formless before your eyes; who teaches the simple path, without rites or ceremonies; Who does not make you close your doors, and hold your breath, and renounce the world; Who makes you perceive the Supreme Spirit whenever the mind attaches itself; Who teaches you to be still in the midst of all your activities. Fearless, always immersed in bliss, he keeps the spirit of yoga in the midst of enjoyments.

  Kabir

  Real, Yoga, Eye

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• Honesty is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts, but to be scrupulously fair, upright, fearless in both action and expression. Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.

  B. C. Forbes

  Honesty, Character, Men

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• Possess the spirit of independence. The Americans do, and why should not you? Possess the spirit of men, bold and enterprising, fearless and undaunted. Sue for your rights and privileges. Know the reason that you cannot attain them. Weary them with your importunities. You can but die, if you make the attempt; we shall certainly die if you do not. The Americans have practised nothing but head-work these 200 years, and we have done their drudgery. And is it not high time for us to imitate their examples, and practise head-work too, and keep what we have got, and get what we can?

  Maria W. Stewart

  Men, Rights, Years

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• The fear of the judge within is more terrible than that of the one without.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fear, Judging, Terrible

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• There is always the fear of self-righteousness possessing us, the fear of arrogating to ourselves a superiority that we do not possess.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fear, Self, Righteousness

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• If you are truly fearless as a performer, than you don't fear kids or dogs.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Dog, Kids, Performers

  "Interview: Actor Thomas Haden Church is Character Driven in 'Max'". Interview with Patrick McDonald, www.hollywoodchicago.com. June 25, 2015.

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• What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons... we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless "Why?" and "What next?".

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Needs

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• I'm much more of a risk taker. I'm more fearless now than when I was 18. I was much more self-aware and I cared too much about what people thought of me and now I really don't. I probably should.

  Jessica Alba

  Self, People, Risk

  "Jessica Alba Interview, Spy Kids All The Time in the World". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. September 13, 2017.

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• I am fearless when I think I'm alone.

  Kristen Stewart

  Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think I read Susan Brownmiller's classic book called "Femininity" when I was about 16. So yeah, it's been part of my mindset since a very early age. To me, what's crucial is to tell women's stories but also to tell them in a way that is fearless.

  Emma Donoghue

  Book, Thinking, Age

  "Room" Author/Screenwriter Emma Donoghue on Her "Deeply Feminist" Film and Industry Sexism". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. October 16, 2015.

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• If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.

  Bell Hooks

  Self, Agency, Giving

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• To me fearless isn't not having fears, it's not that you're not afraid of anything. I think that being fearless is having a lot of fears, but you jump anyway.

  Taylor Swift

  Thinking, Not Afraid

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• The knife is the most durable, immortal, the most genius thing that man created. The knife was the guillotine; the knife is the universal means of solving all knots; and along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox - the single most worthy path of the fearless mind.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Lying, Mean, Men

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2007). “We”, p.103, Modern Library

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• Defend the weak, protect both young and old, never desert your friends. Give justice to all, be fearless in battle and always ready to defend the right." —The law of Badger Lords

  Brian Jacques

  Law, Giving, Justice

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• I write a lot of songs about love and I think that’s because to me love seems like this huge complicated thing. But it seems like every once in a while, two people get it figured out, two people get it right. And so I think the rest of us, we walk around daydreaming about what that might be like. To find that one great love, where all of a sudden everything that seemed to be so complicated, became simple. And everything that used to seem so wrong all of a sudden seemed right because you were with the person who made you feel fearless.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

  Audre Lorde

  Feminist, Different, Equal Rights

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.132, Crossing Press

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• The fear for oneself, that one can do something about. Upon it one can turn the light of awareness. But when one is no longer worrying about oneself, then the fear comes for other people and, after that, for the world. There are no fearless people, only fearless moments.

  Peter Høeg

  Fear, Light, People

  Peter Høeg (2013). “Borderliners: A Novel”, p.21, Macmillan

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• Are you in earnest resolved never to barter your liberty for the lordly servitude of a court, but to live free, fearless, and independent? There seems to be one way to continue in that virtuous resolution; and perhaps but one. Never enter the place from whence so few have been able to return; never come within the circle of ambition; nor ever bring yourself into comparison with those masters of the earth who have already engrossed the attention of half mankind before you.

  Adam Smith

  Ambition, Independent, Circles

  Adam Smith, Robert L. Heilbroner, Laurence J. Malone (1987). “The Essential Adam Smith”, p.85, W. W. Norton & Company

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• He's bent over the strings tuning his guitar with such passionate attention I almost feel I should look away but I can't. In fact I'm full on gawking wondering what it would be like to be cool and casual and fearless and passionate and so freaking alive just like he is- and for a split second I want to play with him. I want to disturb the birds. Later as he plays and plays as all the fog burns away I think he's right. That's exactly it- I am crazy sad and somewhere deep inside all I want is to fly.

  Jandy Nelson

  Crazy, Thinking, Fog

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.54, Penguin

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• So, before leading my troops into battle, we would get drunk and drugged up, sacrifice a local teenager, drink their blood, then strip down to our shoes and go into battle wearing colourful wigs and carrying dainty purses we'd looted from civilians. We'd slaughter anyone we saw, chop their heads off and use them as soccer balls. We were nude, fearless, drunk and homicidal. We killed hundreds of people - so many I lost count.

  General Butt Naked

  Soccer, Teenager, Sacrifice

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• These days we don’t have to fit into something other people think we are. We’ve leveled the playing field, life is inclusive. I’m a mom, sex detective, wife, fearless, gentle — we can now, with grace, be all of what we are.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Mom, Sex, Thinking

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