Quotes About Daring

I've been trying to find the word that says what I need to be in life. 'Brave' is the only word. It's the only thing that I ask myself to be.

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.

A bold onset is half the battle.

Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.

If you take risks, you may fail; but if you don't take risks, you will surely fail

Often, in the real world, it's not the smart that get ahead but the bold.

The ultimate winners are willing to take ultimate risks.

You can risk being wrong or you can be boring.

Take more chances than you dare. You'll make more sales than you expect. That's the formula.

Leave it to me: I'm always top banana in the shock department.

Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt.

You know the trouble with real life? There's no danger music.

Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.

I think music needs danger; it needs risk.

By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism

Well, it's always been my nature to take chances My right hand drawing back while my left hand advances

It is the child that sees the primordial secret in Nature and it is the child of ourselves we return to. The child within us is simple and daring enough to live the Secret.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Don't look back—forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience—then alone can great deeds be accomplished.

By woe the soul to daring action steals; by woe in plaintless patience it excels.

Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

Be bold. Don't wait. Go ahead.