#fearlessness

Fortune helps the intrepid and abandons the cowards. I am the daughter of a man who did not know of fear. Whatever may come, I am resolved to follow that course until death. ↗

— Caterina Sforza

#fearlessness #death

The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace. ↗

— Aberjhani

#fear #fearlessness #haiku #meditation #national-poetry-month

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. ↗

— Marie Curie

#understanding #life

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

#alert #am #aware #bestows #contentment

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

#compassion #fearlessness #flower #greatest #love

Bobby Tom told me he’s not afraid of the Chargers’ defense.” “Bobby Tom’ll tell you he’s not afraid of nuclear war, so I wouldn’t put too much stock in his opinion. ↗

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#football #fearless

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

#begun #childhood #documentary #fearlessness #fight

Fear was the worst evil ever to plague a man, for with it came hesitation and with that, inaction, failure, death. ↗

— Melissa McPhail

#fearlessness #inspirational #success-strategies #attitude

Adventure comes with no guarantees or promises. Risk and reward are conjoined twins—and that’s why my favorite piece of advice needs translation but no disclaimers: Fortes fortuna juvat. ‘Fortune favors the brave,’ the ancient Roman dramatist Terrence declared. In other words, there are many good reasons not to toss your life up in the air and see how it lands. Just don’t let fear be one of them. ↗

— Mary South

#life

Fear! Fear again, for the first time since his 'teens. Fear, that he thought he would never know any more. Fear that no weapon, no jeopardy, no natural cataclysm, has ever been able to inspire until now. And now here it is running icily through him in the hot Chinese noon. Fear for the thing he loves, the only fear that can ever wholly cow the reckless and the brave. ("Jane Brown's Body") ↗

— Cornell Woolrich

#fearless #fearlessness #inspirational