Quotation Explorer - 'Daring'

I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare. - Maya Angelou
Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder, love, and daring. When we cease to tell or listen, then we no longer exist as a people. - Bryce Courtenay
People believe unbelievable things because it's self-flattering to think that you are intellectually daring enough to accept what others find preposterous. - Christopher Buckley
Trying something new is like daring to speak a foreign language, you bite your tongue at first, memorize and thereafter sing it as if you were pretending to be unacquainted. - Michael Bassey Johnson
I made dangerous choices in those years, thinking myself bold and adventurous. Later I would come to understand that I hadn't been daring at all, just driven by confusion and hormones. The person capable of true daring, I knew now, possessed two admirable qualities: curiosity and courage. - Alice Steinbach
I f he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt
Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words. - Mahatma Gandhi
Humour sustains us during failure; more so after success, when we're prone to fail that much more, daring abyss, pumped up with success. - Fakeer Ishavardas
Daring to make a difference in today's youth-one page at a time - william sawyers
Be daring and determined. There is nothing to lose in this life. - Lailah Gifty Akita
...I was shocked and astonished when a daring little girl -- a cousin I think -- having waited under a group of trees in the avenue, where she knew [my grandfather] would pass near four o'clock on the way to his dinner, said to him, 'If I were you and you were a little girl, I would give you a doll. - W.B. Yeats
The energy and daring is to resist the noes, until the final yes has been achieved. - Jeffrey D. Sachs
Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world - making the most of one's best. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
I know it's the belief that women should never show daring in front of men. Never be bold when men hesitate. I know flight is not the answer; even to save our lives. - Empress Theodora
Adversity awaken in us a strong-will to a daring life.You become a stronger person with each adversity that you overcome. - Lailah Gifty Akita
I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk. - Oprah Winfrey
The pursuit of PhD is an enduring daring adventure. - Lailah Gifty Akita
You must dare, and dare again, and then dare a little bit more, and go on daring. - Justin Cotillard
Traveling solo is an incredible life changing journey, which I can recommend anyone to undertake. It’s the fear of being alone that prevents many people from daring to take the step to go on that journey. But as with many things, within that fear you’ll discover the greatest triumphs. - Jellis Vaes
Growing up, I loved the tale of Peter Rabbit and also books on Pippi Longstocking. Pippi was a girl who had so much fun and was very daring. My sons loved all the Dr. Seuss books - Soraya Diase Coffelt
Nor is there wanting in the pressSome spirit to stand simply forth,Heroic in it nakedness,Against the uttermost of earth.The tale of earth's unhonored thingsSounds nobler there than 'neath the sun;And the mind whirls and the heart sings,And a shout greets the daring one. - Robert Frost
There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten. - Indira Gandhi
May you great success in all your daring adventures. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth. - H. L. Mencken
Live your life as a novel with a daring, awesome main character; otherwise you’re just there for comic relief. - Alexandra Bunker
The Great Way is not named; Great Discriminations are not spoken; Great Benevolence is not benevolent; Great Modesty is not humble; Great Daring does not attack. If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way. - Chuang Chou
Purpose driven attitude of service is the driving force for daring success. - Debasish Mridha
The pursuit of PhD is enduring daring adventure. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security 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 exposure. - Helen Keller
The men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth. - H. L. Mencken
Timmy, who made a daring escape, also made a mistake of paying the taxi driver with a check made out of toilet paper. - Janet Frame
Life is a daring adventure.I am enjoying every bit of the joyful journey. - Lailah Gifty Akita
There is deliverance for every daring soul. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A show of daring oft conceals great fear. - Lucan
In life, be daring, look for adventure, provide the service and love the nature. - Debasish Mridha
How often have I painted a splendid picture of a journey marked by courageous ascents and daring desert crossings when all along all I’ve really been doing is running? - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Every daring adventure opens a new magnificent frontier. - Debasish Mridha
My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring, still. - Maya Angelou
The most daring adventure in life is life itself. - Debasish Mridha
DARING, n. One of the most conspicuous qualities of a man in security. - Ambrose Bierce
The greatest adventure for a person is to live own life, but even greater daring than that for a man is to live a married life and sustain by offering own opinion to his wife. - Anuj Somany
If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative. - Arthur C. Clarke
For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination. - Arthur Conan Doyle
I believe that if a seven-year old kid has heard of Naked Lunch and is daring enough to want to read it, he’s old enough to read it. - John Waters
I am a daring soul. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. - Helen Keller
There is obviously something wrong with our educational system. It is not beyond the realm of possibility that there might even be something wrong with at least some of our schoolteachers. But heaven help anyone daring to express such heretical views. - J. Paul Getty
We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world. - Christina Hoff Sommers
Courage is a daring spirit. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Life changed after that jump...I'd suddenly stepped to the highest level of daring, a level above even that which airplane pilots could attain. - Charles Lindbergh
A daring heart is vulnerable, but unless it is willing to be broken it will never know the power of true love. - Toni Sorenson
Rudeness, abruptness, gory tales of blood and thunder, and coarse language usually show up the greenhorn or counterfeit, and certainly the ill-bred. "The bravest are the tenderest; the gentlest are the daring. - Kenneth W. Estes
Security is an illusion. Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.
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