Quotes on Daring To Be Great

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

I'm talking about: Are we competing today, every minute, in everything we do in practice. Are we letting loose and daring to be great here and now? And can we sustain that? And repeat it. Trophies are great, but we're trying to win forever.

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

I wanted to undertake the challenge of daring to be great.