Quotes About Daring

With the traditional Australian's indifference to personal dryness and venomous underwater predators, she dived right in.

When shooting in the dark, it is a good idea to use a machine gun.

There's nothing wrong with using the money that you earn to be daring and buy art that you love or that you think is beautiful.

I definitely tend to go for looks that are slightly more out-there than usual, because I feel like it's a week of celebrating. So I usually choose something that's a bit risky.

It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

Sometimes, there's a fine line between bravery and utter stupidity. The day I decided to climb into a boxing ring for a professional fight was probably on the side of stupidity.

He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity.

There is always safety in valor.

I don't think you mess around when you talk about tales of valor.

Critics reach that age when it is as valuable and daring to hold a negative opinion as it is for a positive. We learn and understand from both.

If you enjoyed laughing in the face of death, you might like to have a crack at High Saffron. One hundred merits, and all you have to do is take a look.' 'I understand there's a one hundred percent fatality rate?' 'True. But up until the moment of death there was a one hundred percent survival rate. Really, I shouldn't let anything as meaningless as statistics put you off.

To fail spectacularly is a loser's paradise.

He said you were very dangerous. No more dangerous than anyone else who dares to speak the truth.

You intend to go . . . supersonic?' 'Trust us,' said Owen with a smile, 'it's faintly possible that we know what we're doing.

It was a brilliant move on my part—if you didn't count the almost-certain-death aspect of the plan.

Well, you're AWOL at best and a cheese smuggler at worst. So we've concocted a cover story of such bizarre complexity and outrageous daring that it can only be true. Here it is: in a parallel universe ruled entirely by lobsters, you—

Oh, Danny has quite a reputation for headstrongery." "Eh? Headstrongery?" said Mr. Pippit. "What kind of a word is that?" "Kind of nice, isn't it?" Joe said, proudly. "I just invented it. I also invented a motto for him: 'Leap before you look.' My own motto is, 'Sleep before you look.

It is in this way that a war is disastrous. If it does not kill, it transmits to some an energy alien to their own resources; to others it permits what the law forbids and accustoms them to short cuts. It artificially glorifies ingenuity, pity, daring. A whole younger generation believes itself to be sublime and collapses when it has to draw on itself for patriotism and fate.

The only selfish life is a timid one.

The curious are always in some danger.

Lo que arriesgas revela cuánto vales.

To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.

What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.

If you are wiling to do something that might not work, you are closer to being an artist.