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Quotes About Daring

Kind? How boring that would be. I aspire to be wicked.
~ George R.R. Martin
When I was a boy, I dreamt that I could fly, he announces. When I woke, I couldn't... or so the maester said. But what if he lied? What do you mean? Perhaps we can fly. All of us. How will we ever know unless we leap from some tall tower? No man ever truly knows what he can do unless he dares to leap. There is the window. Leap. What do you want? The world.
~ George R.R. Martin
Perhaps we can fly. All of us. How will we ever know unless we leap from some tall tower? No man ever truly knows what he can do unless he dares to leap.
~ George R.R. Martin
But the girl did not have sense enough to be afraid.
~ George R.R. Martin
No man ever truly knows what he can do unless he dares to leap.
~ George R.R. Martin
What good did it do you to be brave?
~ George R.R. Martin
When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isnt a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
~ Georges Clemenceau
Audacity, more audacity, always audacity.
~ Georges Jacques Danton
Audacity, more audacity and always audacity.
~ Georges Jacques Danton
It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.
~ Georgia O'Keeffe
Brave? Or stupid?" Roger shrugged. "I've never been quite sure where brave stopped and stupid began, myself.
~ Gerald Morris
Vigilance in watching opportunity; tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity; force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost possible achievement-these are the martial virtues which must command success.
~ Austin Phelps
Dancing on the edge is the only place to be.
~ Trisha Brown
In order to find the edge, you must risk going over the edge.
~ Dennis Dugan
Taking risks gives me energy.
~ Jay Chiat
The moment somebody says "this is very risky" is the moment it becomes attractive to me.
~ Kate Capshaw
Calculation never made a hero.
~ John Henry Cardinal Newman
To play it safe is not to play.
~ Robert Altman
No guts, no glory.
~ Anonymous
All serious daring starts from within.
~ Eudora Welty
Risk! Risk anything! ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
~ Katherine Mansfield
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
~ Ray Bradbury
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
~ Christian Bovee
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
~ Herodotus