Quotes About Daring

Yet Sylvia told others she was "daring to live the way most people dream of living when they are fifty: to sacrifice all for our ideal of a good life, not other people's cars & securities & 10 year leases.

Who has a daring eye tells downright truths and downright lies.

I flew too near the sun and my wax wings fell off

I don't govern my life according to danger

Be bad, and if you can't be bad be worse.

Cowardice was the fear of doing something because of the risk to one's personal safety—be it physical, emotional, or professional.

History favors the intrepid.

Better to know defeat from courage than safety through chickenheartedness.

bravery often demands a price.

Tell me what it is, or prepare to eat harpoon.

The only thing worse than a perilous adventure is a boring one.

There's more to life than safety

It's a good plan, Mr. Snicket." "Oh sure," I said, "like juggling dynamite, or kicking a polar bear.

Do the scary thing first, and get scared later

Vamos allá, arriesguemos nuestras vidas. Porque si tienen algún valor, es precisamente que no tienen ninguno.

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

Eleanor Roosevelt once said, 'Do one thing every day that scares you.' From now on, that's what we have to do.

I would not have shied away from an assignment to sail a canoe around Cape Horn or to take charge of the government of Afghanistan.

but then I am unlike other people I dare say.

I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.

I am not one of those young ladies who are so daring to risk their happiness on the chance of being asked a second time.

I am not afraid of you, said he, smilingly.

I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such young ladies there are) who are so daring as to risk their happiness on the chance of being asked a second time.

I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such ladies there are) who are so daring as to risk their happiness on the chance of being asked a second time. I am perfectly serious in my refusal.