Quotes with daring

  • We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.
  • 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.
  • Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.
  • Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
  • 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.
  • The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire - the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale
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  • Sir Cecil Beaton 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.
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  • Henry David Thoreau Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution - such call I good books.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Winston Churchill No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • C. J. Cherryh 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
    American writer (1942 - )
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  • Eugene F. Ware All glory comes from daring to begin.
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  • Joan Baez All serious daring starts from within.
    Joan Baez
    American singer, songwriter (1941 - )
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  • Adam Sedgwick As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the personality. If we oppose it, we are trying to suppress what is best in man -his daring and his aspirations. And should we succeed, we should only have stood in the way of that invaluable experience which might have given a meaning to life. What would have happened if Paul had allowed himself to be talked out of his journey to Damascus?
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Samuel Johnson 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.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Ovid Daring is not safe against daring men.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Brene Brown Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Emma Goldman Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Martin Luther Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.
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  • Arthur Conan Doyle 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
    British writer and medical doctor (1859 - 1930)
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  • F. L. Lucan Great fear is concealed under daring.
    F. L. Lucan
    Roman epic poet (39 - 65)
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  • Horace He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Alphonse Karr If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.
    Alphonse Karr
    French writer and editor of Le Figaro (1808 - 1890)
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  • Anita Roddick If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • Henry Miller Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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