Quotes About Daring

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. SENECA

This story begins wherever there is enough courage and freedom and daring and sensibility to acknowledge that the pain of ruthless exploitation is not normal and cannot be borne.

An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.

Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.

Only those intrepid souls who are prepared to join Yarnspinner on his perilous journey should read this book. We wish the rest of you a long, safe, unutterably dull and boring life!

Un amor independiente siempre incomoda. Un amor sin apegos es irreverente, fantástico, insólito, locuaz, trascendente, atrevido y envidiable.

Nebraska made it almost impossible for critics to miss Springsteen's willingness to take a chance in the name of his art. If Springsteen was driven simply by fame and mainstream success, there would have been no good reason to make or release a Nebraska. The album made it impossible to use the word "sellout.

Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.

A good leader cannot ask his followers to go where he has not first dared to go.

Photographer William Leftwich was rewarded for his nervy visit to the uppermost reaches of the RCA's steel frame when two workers standing fifteen feet apart on a single beam began to toss a football back and forth.

Akimov had decided to throw caution to the wind and host a blowout

Nothing worse doing is without risk. - Saladin

Nothing worth doing this without risk. – Saladin

Nothing worth doing is without risk. - Saladin

Either brave or stupid, Rachel thought. Of course, everything brave was also stupid. Sadly the same could not be said of the reverse.

The only way you can know where the line is, is if you cross it.

I want to be a rollercoaster and not a train.

In a world gone soft, the time has come to go outlaw!

Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.

You're either the bravest kid I've ever met or plain crazy.

I'm either really, really brave or really, really stupid.

Newt shook his head, his face a mixture of anger and awe. "What you did was half brave and half bloody stupid. Seems like you're pretty good at that.

You have a knack for trying to get yourself killed!

I've met some brave people in my life. And I've met some awfully stupid people. You're one of the rare ones that are both.