Quotes on Daring

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

The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore...unlike the mediocre, intrepid spirits seek victory over those things that seem impossible...it is with an iron will that they embark on the most daring of all endeavors...to meet the shadowy future without fear and conquer the unknown.

He who would greatly deserve must greatly dare.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

Nothing pleases people more than to go on thinking what they have always thought, and at the same time imagine that they are thinking something new and daring: it combines the advantage of _x000D_ security and the delight of adventure.

There are billions of people in the world, and every one of them is special. No one else in the world is like you.

We look back, already, with astonishment, at the daring outrages committed by despotism, on the reason and rights of man; we look forward with joy, to the period, when it shall be despoiled of all its usurpations, and bound forever in the chains, with which it had loaded its miserable victims.

That's what life is about: about daring greatly, about being in the arena.

Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allowing ourselves to move gently toward what scares us.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it. If you fail anywhere along the line it will take away your confidence. You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.

Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.

There are no prescriptive solutions, no grand designs for grand problems. Life's solutions lie in the minute particulars involving more and more individual people daring to create their own life and art, daring to listen to the voice within their deepest, original nature, and deeper still, the voice within the earth.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Through the centuries, we faced down death by daring to hope.

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.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that the believer would stake his life on it a thousand times.

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