Daring Quotes

• Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Success, Courage

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• Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• 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.

  Cecil Beaton

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• 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.

  Martin Luther

  God, Faith, Men

  "Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings".

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• Devote today to something so daring even you can't believe you're doing it.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Powerful, Believe, Today

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• Be daring. Be first. Be different.

  Anita Roddick

  Business, Individuality, Different

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• A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it.

  C. J. Cherryh

  Hero, Warrior, Soldier

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  Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1250, Faber & Faber

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

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

  Robert Kennedy

  Change, Hope, Courage

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.

  Eudora Welty

  Happiness, Freedom, Curiosity

  1984 One Writer's Beginnings, III. 'Finding a Voice'.

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• If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

  Anita Roddick

  Meaningful, Hard Work, Kids

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• Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Progress, Adaptation

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.251, New Directions Publishing

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• Do one thing every day that scares you.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Positive, New Year

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• And what they dare to dream of, date to do.

  James Russell Lowell

  Dream, Dare To Dream, Dare

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• The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with dust and sweat; who strives valiantly; who errs and may fall again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Fall, Men, Errors

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

  Helen Keller

  Death, Spiritual, Courage

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Esteem, Careers, Will And Determination

  Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Greatness, Guilt, Criminals

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• It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

  Alvin Toffler

  Sides, Take A Chance, Caution

  ALVIN TOFFLER (1970). “FUTURE SHOCK”

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• To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.

  Rex Stout

  Joy, Detectives, Finesse

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• Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring.

  Manfred von Richthofen

  Eye, Swag, Stupidity

  Manfred von Richthofen (2009). “The Red Baron”, p.128, BoD – Books on Demand

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• After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.

  Harry Seidler

  Europe, Firsts, Architecture

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• The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.

  Charles Churchill

  Lying, Acting, Crime

  'An Epistle to William Hogarth' (1763) l. 51

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• Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt.

  Alex North

  Art, People, Film Music

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