Quotes About Daring

I'm not afraid to take a swing and miss.

There's always a concern as an actor that you'll be boring unless your character is swinging from a chandelier.

Some people get into this business and they're so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect their position like clinging to a beachhead. These actors end up making really safe choices. I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I'm going down swinging.

I feel every day that everything I create - everything I do - I want it to be a risk. I think when you take the big swings - and I've done plenty of big swings that I was told were never going to work - those are always the things that break through.

It's easier to ask for forgiveness than it is to get permission.

Every once in awhile you just have to go out and do something, very crazy and very right, just to dare yourself to live. I don't mean something stupid and destructive, just something fun and good and beautiful.

Every once in a while you just have to decide to something very crazy and very right-- just dare yourself to live. I don't mean doing something stupid and destructive-- just something fun and good and beautiful.

Every once in a while you just have to decide to do something very crazy and very right--just to dare yourself to live. I don't mean doing something stupid and destructive--just something fun and good and beautiful.

No daring is fatal. The whole logic of the universe is contained in daring, in creating from the flimsiest, slenderest support.

Cheat at this game.

Afraid? I can dodge folly without backing into fear.

Every other way is like that -- him waiting for something to happen to him, daring somebody to do something nice such as come up and touch him just so he could say, 'Why in the world did you do that?' and hold on tight till whoever bothered him vanished -- and nothing about him since has ever surprised me.

Without risk, being fearless is impossible

He that dare not die, dare scarce fight valiantly (475).

It is only by being bold that you get anywhere. If you are a risk-taker, then the art is to protect the downside.

the best motto to follow is 'Nothing ventured; nothing gained'.

Try everything once. Except incest and folk dancing.' Sir Thomas Beecham

If I had refused to contemplate skydiving, hot-air ballooning or crossing the Atlantic in a boat, I think that my life would have been the duller for it. I never think that I am going to die by accident, but if I were to die then all I can say is that I was wrong, and the hardened realists who kept their feet on the ground were right. But at least I tried.

Some idiotic things are well worth doing.

It's a daring step, but in the world game, no daring is fatal. The only thing that will kill you is failing to leap.

Those who walk the full and entire journey are considered "called" or "chosen" in the Bible, perhaps "fated" or "destined" in world mythology and literature, but always they are the ones who have heard some deep invitation to "something more," and set out to find it by both grace and daring.

True, Jedediah Halsey's Sans Souci hadn't been so much foolish as "visionary," which, as everyone knew, was what you called a foolish idea that worked anyway.

Monkey bar, Annabeth said. I'm great at these. She leaped onto to the first rung and start swinging her way across. She was scared of tiny spiders, but not of plummeting to her death from a set of monkey bars. Go figure.

Nico, I've seen a lot of brave things. But what you just did? That was maybe the bravest.