Quotes About Daring

Q: What's the definition of bravery? A: A man with diarrhea, chancing a fart.

Walk on air against your better judgement.

I do really crazy things all the time, but I can't think of anything offhand

Any tightrope walker can walk in a straight line and hold a cane at the same time. It's the balancing on the rope at those dizzying heights that they have to practise

At Gatling-gun tempo word-perfect the first time out. the journalistic equivalent of a high-wire front somersault without a net.

[There's] this idea of "I want to take care of myself," but at the same time I want to be brave, daring, and expressive.

Wearing nothing but sweats and a sheer coat of lip gloss, she wiggle through her frosted window and jumped six feet to freedom, feeling more charged than a Visa card at Christmas time.

me that it had been many years since the world had been afforded the spectacle of a man adventurous enough to undertake

There's only one choice and the brave make it. Fly from the path.

Personally, I quite like that. Such stupid gallantry. Yes. I like that a lot.

Foolish perhaps, but I play for high stakes and given an audience there is no act too daring or too noble.

Anxiety is there. It is only sleeping. Its breath quivers perpetually through Dasein, only slightly in those who are jittery, imperceptibly in the 'Oh, yes' and the 'Oh, no' of men of affairs; but most readily in the reserved, and most assuredly in those who are basically daring. But those daring ones sustained by that on which they expend themselves—in order thus to preserve the ultimate grandeur of existence.

We must substitute courage for caution.

All too many others have been more cautious than courageous and have remained silent behind the anesthetizing security of stained-glass windows

I ain't afraid of anything on this side of the grave.

Het is een kwestie van durven, meer niet. Dat geldt voor alle kunst, dus ook voor die van het leven

Hay dos clases de valentía: la del valiente y la del cobarde

BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS WONT DROWN

Better drowned than duffers, if not duffers won't drown.

Had they stayed just a few seconds longer, they would have plunged into the fire themselves.

You're very beautiful," I said suddenly, embarrassed at my own daring. There was a moment of silence as Eudora put down her hammer. "So are you, Chica," she said, quietly, "more beautiful than you know." Her eyes held mine for a minute so I could not turn away. No one had ever said that to me before.

As they become known to and accepted by us, our feelings and the honest exploration of them become sanctuaries and spawning grounds for the most radical and daring of ideas. They become a safe-house for that difference so necessary to change and the conceptualization of any meaningful action.

Our poems formulate the implications of ourselves, what we feel within and dare make real (or bring action into accordance with), our fears, our hopes, our most cherished terrors.

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.