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.
    ― Sir Cecil Beaton
     
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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.
    ― Eugene F. Ware
     
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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.
    ― Adam Sedgwick
     
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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.
    ― Martin Luther
    German preacher (1483 - 1546)
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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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