Quotes About Daring

Jimmy Carter had the nerve, the guts, the balls, to ask for something extraordinary.

My heart - which, thrilled at my daring, had held its breath for a moment or two - began suddenly to beat quite wildly

He was dirty, his hair unkempt, his clothes stained with blood. Heroes in stories somehow managed to rescue maidens while looking like court dandies. Next time he went adventuring he'd remember to bring a comb.

Fortune favors the bold.

Don't look so scared.

He may have been a trifle wild.

He was a very valiant man who first adventured on eating oysters.

The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave.

Sometimes all the procedures in the world can't protect you . . . but that's no reason to walk up to something that looks like a lion and kick it in the ass.

His bark The daring mariner shall urge far o'er The Western wave, a smooth and level plain, Albeit the earth is fashioned like a wheel.

Euripides long ago said, 'who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.' I nominated myself as an 'infidel' as a challenge to thought for those who are asleep.

The poet with hair down his shoulders, whom the streets call after on his way, is endued with a kind of daring that many a brave general might envy.

Recklessness is just stupidity pretending to be bravery. No one is fooled.

despite its shortcomings the First Crusade was one of the most daring and brilliantly successful military expeditions recorded in history.

The following year, Navarre, not surprisingly, was cashiered from his post in the German section of the Deuxième Bureau, the French army's intelligence agency. "A man of the utmost daring and rebelliousness," he "positively relished being in hot water—wonderful to serve under, impossible to command," the British historian M.R.D. Foot later noted.

Courage follows action.

Ah, Chantal... Now I think I know how it feels to fly on a trapeze.

Bold action and bold manner are not the same.

Timidity creates nothing.

Yet you would dare to stay?" "I dare anything," he said. And that is how we came to be lovers.

Tell me," I said, "how do you know that your father is not right about my poisons? How do you know I will not drug you where you sit?" "I do not." "Yet you would dare to stay?" "I dare anything," he said. And that is how we came to be lovers.

You warned me it was not safe. I do not think being frightened will help.

As with all daring and successful men the tricks and devices of his subconscious nature were much more formidable than his rational schemes; and so by a sort of automatic protective instinct he kept them subconscious.

Take a plunge, take a plunge . . . they're all crooks and gamblers anyway . . . take a plunge and come up with your hands full, pockets full, bankaccount full, vaults full of money. If I only dared take the risk. Fool to waste your time fuming about it.