Quotes About Daring

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that will sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. —Robert F Kennedy South Africa,

You've got to jump off cliffs—and build your wings on the way down. RAY BRADBURY

I am very brave," Sheila Rae said, patting herself on the back.

Courage is the one who lives the life that he or she wants to live, regardless of what everyone else is doing. A coward is one who lives life, never stepping away from the group or challenging the norms of society.

the best part of life is that one could be quite daring...

For me performing has a lot to do with being fearless.

Never underestimate the power of the out-on-a-limb gesture.

When I loved myself enough, I let the tomboy in me swing off the rope in Jackass Canyon. Yes!

She stiffened at the thought and cast him a chiding glare. "Put your weapon away." He arched a daring brow at that. "Why should I when I have half a mind to make good use of it on you?" "So you admit to having only half a mind, then?" Rowena & Stryder

Ignoring the crowd in the hall and her uncle. Stryder picked her up from her chair and carried her from the room, up the stairs until they reached her bedchamber. "What are you doing?" she asked. "I'm scandalizing you so that you will have no choice save to marry me in the morning." -Rowena & Stryder

When I grow up, I'd like to be dangerous.

I might simply be imagining things, but I do believe that in this parodying of heresy there exists a daring kind of wisdom that might also parody the grounds of orthodoxy.

Think of all the fabulous things that have happened in the world because someone has just done it-you know, just jumped off the cliff and worried about the dangers when it's all over.

They might have chosen to stay home in safety, but the true heroic deed was that they did not, even knowing the danger they faced.

There are times when the utmost daring is the height of wisdom.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

One must do the outrageous with style. With élan. With complete conviction.

Take a risk, take a prize.

throw caution to the wind and just do it

One reason that religious prohibitions will probably never disappear is that we would deeply miss the glory we bestow upon ourselves for daring to violate the rules of an illustrious illusion we have imagined was an explanation of our existence.

He flies through the air with the greatest of ease,This daring young man on the flying trapeze;His figure is handsome, all girls he can please,And my love he purloined her away!

My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed T. S. Eliot 'The Waste Land

The things I do for love.

I rose too high, loved too hard, dared too much. I tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell.