Quotes About Daring

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

Rouge et Noir

life, going straight up the middle is the boldest move

Sometimes in life, going straight up the middle is the boldest move of all.

Nothing's too gnarly.

I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.

Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?

What sets these - and all - racers apart from less daredevilish mortals is their complete lack of fear and their joy of doing something on the edge. They love to speed because it is dangerous.

The loving are the daring.

The definition of a stupid thing is something that if you do everything right, you still get hurt. Fire-eating and love are stupid things.

It's quite true that what I am aiming at, even when I take portraits, is to get a scandalous picture. I would love to be a paparazzo.

I love really crappy carnivals, where you think the ride is going to break. There's something so seedy about them.

Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon

If you're going to take gambles, you must have one thing: self-confidence.

I especially love driving down a hill directly at a tree and swerving to one side at the last moment. That's my way to relax.

When you dare aspire upward, you reveal the inadequacy of the present and the promise of the future. Then you disturb others, in the depths of their souls, where they understand that their cynicism and immobility are unjustifiable. You play Abel to their Cain.

You have to be willing to be a fool to advance.

The great difficulty of assessing problems in sufficient detail to understand what is causing them, followed by the equally great difficulty of generating and testing particularized solutions, is sufficient to deter even the stouthearted, let us say, from daring to tackle a true plague of mankind.

What if she had continually and honestly risked

He was nuts. He'd scammed the quarterly mental health exam and was certifiably insane. Not that that's ever stopped me from sleeping with anyone.

I'd always thought that rules were just for people who tended to get caught.

who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly,

Para eso se es joven, para probar cosas, para experimentar. Para eso y para desafiarlo todo.