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Quotes About Daring

He led her to a small silver shuttle, a six-seater. "Am I flying with you in your personal craft?" "Yes," he said. "Is that wise?" "I thought we established that I don't care about being wise.
~ Ilona Andrews
It is a brave act of valor to contemn death, but where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live
~ Inazo Nitobe
Others were compiling a hasty mental inventory of all the pages they'd written, all the speeches they'd given, which might help them win favour with the new government (and since they had all more or less lamented the fact that France had lost her greatness, lost her daring and was no longer producing children, none of them was very worried).
~ Irene Nemirovsky
a las bravas.
~ Isaac Asimov
Unimaginative enough to face danger without fear
~ Isaac Asimov
maestro, an honorary title equivalent to licenciado, our designation for almost anyone who has graduated from college. With pliers and some wire, this fellow can fix anything from a lavatory to an airplane turbine: his creativity and daring are boundless.
~ Isabel Allende
In order to be an icon, you need to be bold. How do I define boldness? Stepping outside of your comfort zone.
~ Saweetie
A message I've been telling myself: the cinema is very conservative, and unless you have a story that satisfies you, that is within the unchallenging zone, but you love it, you can't do it as cinema. Otherwise, you better go do it for television, which is more daring now.
~ Jane Campion
True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.
~ La Rochefoucauld
None but the brave deserves the fair.
~ John Dryden
What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I never liked the middle ground-the most boring place in the world.
~ Louise Nevelson
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
~ Herodotus
J. C. F. von Schiller
~ God helps the brave.
Fortune favors the audacious.
~ Erasmus
Audacity, more audacity, always audacity.
~ Georges Jacques Danton
The bravest are the tenderest. The loving are the daring.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A bold heart is half the battle.
~ Anonymous
A man of courage never wants weapons.
~ Anonymous
Courage is a scorner of things which inspire fear.
~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
~ Jean Paul Richter
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
~ Colette
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
~ Cynthia Heimel
Take risks. You can't fall off the bottom.
~ Barbara Proctor