Fearlessness Quotes - Page 4

• The best way for us to cultivate fearlessness in our daughters and other young women is by example.

  Gloria Steinem

  Daughter, Way, Example

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• Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it.

  Tobias Wolff

  Tobias Wolff (2007). “This Boy's Life: A Memoir”, p.25, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Do not crave to know the views of others, nor base your intent thereon. To think independently for yourself is a sign of fearlessness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Thinking, Views, Knows

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• The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Challenges, Distinguished

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.196, Vintage

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• 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

  Emotional, Perspective, Understanding

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.116, Criss Jami

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• 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

  Mean, Dark, Appreciate

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Four: Journey without Goal; The Lion's Roar; The Dawn of Tantra; An Interview with Cho gyam Trungpa”, p.180, Shambhala Publications

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• 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

  Fear, Life Changing, Understanding

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from May 28, 2015

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• 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

  Grateful, Compassion, Calm Mind

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• 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

  War, Bravery, Doe

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings”, p.19, Shambhala Publications

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• Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions, courage that could be described as 'grace under pressure' - grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of harsh, unremitting pressure.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Courage, Grace, May

  "Freedom from Fear". Aung San Suu Kyi's Acceptance Speech for the 1990 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. January 1, 1990.

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• 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

  Mind, Absence, Individual

  Aung San Suu Kyi (1991). “Freedom from fear: and other writings”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• 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

  Yoga, Profound, Relaxation

  Erich Schiffmann (2013). “Yoga The Spirit And Practice Of Moving Into Stilln”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• Even fear itself is frightened by the bodhisattva's fearlessness.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Fear, Bodhisattva, Frightened

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• We stand, when we are young, on the sunny slope among the pines, and look across an unknown country to the mountains. There are clouds, but they are edged with light. We do not fear as we dip into the valley; we do not fear the clouds. Thank God for the splendid fearlessness of youth. And as for older travelers whom the Lord has led over the hill and the dale, they have not been given the spirit of fear. They think of the way they have come since they stood on that bright hillside, and their word is always this: There are reasons and reasons for hope and for happiness, and never one for fear.

  Amy Carmichael

  Country, Fear, Thinking

  Amy Carmichael (2013). “Gold by Moonlight: Sensitive Lessons from a Walk with Pain”, p.1, CLC Publications

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• When you are frightened by something, you have to relate with fear, explore why you are frightened, and develop some sense of conviction. You can actually look at fear. Then fear ceases to be the dominant situation that is going to defeat you. Fear can be conquered. You can be free from fear if you realize that fear is not the ogre. You can step on fear, and therefore, you can attain what is known as fearlessness. But that requires that, when you see fear, you smile.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Looks, Steps, Realizing

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings”, p.227, Shambhala Publications

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• Fearlessness comes from working with the softness of the human heart.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Heart, Humans, Softness

  Chogyam Trungpa (2009). “Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior”, p.36, Shambhala Publications

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• A master of tone and texture and an authority on the bizarre, Karen Russell writes with great flair and fearlessness.

  Carlo Wolff

  Writing, Texture, Tone

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• 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

  Passion, Reckless, Abandon

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• 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

  Able, Way, Anticipation

  Matthieu Ricard (2011). “The Art of Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill”, p.70, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.

  Jojo Moyes

  People, Hunger, Buried

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• 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

  Earth, Way, Spirituality

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• 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

  Inspiring, Boston, Cities

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• 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

  Dancing, Optimism, Political

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• Fearlessness is extending ourselves beyond our limited view.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Views, Extending

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• The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement.

  Joseph Campbell

  Adventure, Yield, Achievement

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.188, Anchor

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