Quotes About Daring

courage over comfort

Cultivating meaningful connection is a daring and vulnerable practice that requires grounded confidence, the courage to walk alongside others, and story stewardship.

Courage and fear are not mutually exclusive. Most of us feel brave and afraid at the exact same time. We feel vulnerable.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly;…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.

When we practice generating compassion, we can expect to experience the fear of our pain. Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allow ourselves to move gently toward what scares us.

But developing fundamental skills through disciplined practice is what gives players the grounded confidence to dare greatly.

the physics of vulnerability." It's pretty simple: If we are brave enough often enough, we will fall. Daring is not saying "I'm willing to risk failure." Daring is saying "I know I will eventually fail, and I'm still all in." I've never met a brave person who hasn't known disappointment, failure, even heartbreak.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.

A life lived in fear is a life half-lived

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Every level of our being calls for play and danger.

Let's dare to enter into an intimate relationship with God without fear, trusting that we will receive love and always more love.

The tops of mountains are among the unfinished parts of the globe, whither it is a slight insult to the gods to climb and pry into their secrets, and try their effect on our humanity. Only daring and insolent men, perchance, go there.

Cowards suffer, heroes enjoy.

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

Books] in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institutions?—such call I good books.

Write on your doors the saying wise and old, Be bold! be bold! and everywhere-- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less; Better like Hector in the field to die, Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.

Now then, thought I, unconsciously rolling up the sleeve of my frock, here goes for a cool, collected dive at death and destruction, and the devil fetch the hindmost.

Now, in general, Stick to the boat, is your true motto in whaling; but cases will sometimes happen when Leap from the boat, is still better.

A few years ago I was at a party and this guy threw me over his shoulder, ran across the street, put me in his car, and stuck his tongue in my mouth.

Yes, I'm still going to misbehave!

Oh, yes, that never happened to me in my life before. It was a risky film, and I warned the producer.

Yes, you must have the courage of being free.