Quotes About Daring

I've been sky-diving three times. I would go right now if someone told me the plane was about to take off. I love it. I'm an adrenaline junkie. I don't want to go bungee-jumping.

Tallulah [Bankhead] is always skating on thin ice. Everyone wants to be there when it breaks.

I'm a risk-taker. It's where my passion lies, so I don't want to play it safe. That means I'm going to fail sometimes.

That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.

Brave, bold people, these are what we want.

You can bite me if you want. I want you to.

There is a percentage of people who want to be a little bit outside their comfort zone and I am one of them, someone who lives on the edge.

Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast reactions.

And out there, in that unending cavalcade of danger, I intend to enjoy myself.

Wits enough to be curious, not smart enough to be cautious.

Great,' I said. 'Visit exotic Australia. Get bitten by an exotic snake. Die exotically.

If William Tyndale was anything, he was audacious—a man emboldened to take great risks in fulfilling his dangerous mission for God.

So imagine a fire going -- wood snapping the way it does when it's a little green — the wind rattling the windows behind the curtains -- and one of those Chopin melodies that feel like sorrow and ecstasy all mixed together pouring from the keys -- and you have my idea of happiness. Or just reading, reading and lamplight, the sound of pages turning. And so you dare to be happy. You do that thing. You dare.

A horse must be a bit mad to be a good cavalry mount, and its rider must be completely so.

Once I tried to kill myself with a bungee cord. I kept almost dying.

Det är nutidsmänniskans tragik att hon har upphört att våga vara rädd. Det är ödesdigert för därmed följer att hon också successivt tvingas sluta med att tänka.

To achieve anything, you must be prepared to dabble on the boundary of disaster.

I will not ask you to trust me. All I ask is that you dare to dream.

Scoff at me now, pretty boy!

My, aren't we bold with well-aged whiskey?

I am paraphrasing Einstein. I love to do that: nobody dares contradict me.

Coward: A man in whom the instinct of self-preservation acts normally.

In modern society, there are fewer and fewer opportunities for men to be men. For masculinity to flourish in all its glory. For daring and risk-taking to live free, or at least relatively free. Fraternities are one of those places. They deserve to be protected.

There was one challenge where Murr took a guy's sock off his shoe and put it in his mouth. I couldn't believe he did that.