Quotes About Daring

Courage is action, not talk.

Him and his Life is all adventure stuff. He says, Don't think too hard about it. Just ask yourself this: what would you do if you weren't afraid?

I asked for so little!" she kept saying, as though her diminished demands alone should have protected her against any disappointments. But I think she was mistaken; she had actually asked for a lot. She had dared to ask for happiness, and she had dared to expect that happiness out of her marriage. You can't possibly ask for more than that.

Without bravery, their lives would remain small - far smaller than they probably wanted their lives to be.

Most of all, though, he asked his students to be brave. Without bravery, he instructed, they would never be able to realize the vaulting scope of their own capacities. Without bravery, they would never know the world as richly as it longs to be known. Without bravery, their lives would remain small—far smaller than they probably wanted their lives to be.

Bravery means doing something scary. Fearlessness means not even understanding what the word scary means.

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. —COLETTE

These were risks I was willing to take. It was more important for me to feel free than safe.

Artists, by nature, are gamblers. Gambling is a dangerous habit. But whenever you make art, you're always gambling.

Without bravery, they would never know the world as richly as it longs to be known.

Pero sobre todo les pedía a sus alumnos que fueran valerosos. Sin valor, les enseñaba, nunca serían capaces de desarrollar sus habilidades al máximo. Sin valor no llegarían a conocer el mundo con la profundidad con que este ansía ser conocido. Sin valor sus vidas seguirían siendo pequeñas, mucho más pequeñas probablemente de lo que querían.

Be brave. Without bravery, you will never know the world as richly as it longs to be known.

try saying this: "I enjoy my creativity." And when you say it, be sure to actually mean it. For one thing, it will freak people out. I believe that enjoying your work with all your heart is the only truly subversive position left to take as a creative person these days. It's such a gangster move, because hardly anybody ever dares to speak of creative enjoyment aloud, for fear of not being taken seriously as an artist. So say it. Be the weirdo who dares to enjoy.

El miedo es aburrido

Bravery means doing something scary.

Briefly, he tried to imagine any of his previous, male secretaries daring to comment on his appearance. It was impossible. In fact, he couldn't think of anyone, save his current female secretary, who made such impertinent comments to him. Oddly, he found her impertinence endearing. Not that he let it show.

Do I have to recite any further risks you have taken? How much you have not conformed? How much internal bravery this implies?

It is as well to be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.

They looked up against the darkening sky and saw the fog curling over the edge of the ridges, perhaps 2,000 feet above them—and they felt that special kind of pride of a person who in a foolish moment accepts an impossible dare—then pulls it off to perfection.

Brave old world.

To be afraid and to be brave is the best kind of courage of all.

To be afraid and to be brave is the best courage of all.

She had the best kind of courage, or maybe the worst kind, the kind that gets you into trouble.

The Major Smiths of this world don't drive over the edge of a cliff. Quotation from the future Mrs. Schaffer. The Major Smiths of this world don't fall off the roofs of cable cars. Quotation from the future Mrs. Schaffer's future husband.