Dare Quotes - Page 24

• Our inclination is to show our Lord only what we feel comfortable with. But the more we dare to reveal our whole trembling self to him, the more we will be able to sense that his love, which is perfect love, casts out all our fears.

  Henri Nouwen

  Self, Perfect, His Love

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2017). “You are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Hachette UK

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• The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Courage, Fear

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• There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

  M. Scott Peck

  Inspirational, Peace, Community

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• Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

  J. B. Priestley

  Inspirational, Men, Risk

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• Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Motivational, Uplifting, Failure

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• Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Heart, Mind, Speak

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• None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Fear, Coward

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• It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.

  Thomas Sankara

  Yesterday, Want, Able

  Thomas Sankara (1988). “Thomas Sankara speaks: the Burkina Faso revolution, 1983-87”, Pathfinder Pr

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• The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.

  Lillian Smith

  Hurt, Grief, Heart

  "Killers of the Dream" by Lillian Smith, (pp. 25-26), 1994.

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• Few professors would dare to publish research or teach a course debunking the claims made in various ethnic, gender, or other 'studies' courses.

  Thomas Sowell

  Research, Study, Gender

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• All the music I loved as a child, people thought it was junk. People were unaware of the subtext in so many of those records but if you were a kid you were just completely tuned in, even though you didn't always say - you wouldn't dare say it was beautiful.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Beautiful, Children, Kids

  "Meet the new boss". Interview with Mark Hagen, www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2009.

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• Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.

  Joseph Story

  Wise, Fall, Order

  Joseph Story (1834). “The Constitutional Class Book: Being a Brief Exposition of the Constitution of the United States: Designed for the Use of the Higher Classes in Common Schools”, p.154

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• I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him.

  Studs Terkel

  Religion & Ethics Newsweekly Interview, www.pbs.org. December 19, 2003.

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• Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Life, Success, Men

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Literature, Glitter

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.133, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.

  Polly Toynbee

  Happiness, Government, Gdp

  "It is not fanciful to make the pursuit of happiness a political imperative" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2006.

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• All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same.

  Jesse Ventura

  Loyalty, Patriotic, Government

  Jesse Ventura (2016). “Sh*t Politicians Say: The Funniest, Dumbest, Most Outrageous Things Ever Uttered By Our "Leaders"”, p.155, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Spiritual, Teacher, Party

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• Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.

  Paul Wellstone

  Politics, Imagine, Predictions

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• Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Truth, People, Myth

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• Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Success, Power, Differences

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  You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.

  Chuck Yeager

  Inspirational, Leadership, Jobs

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• [W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Expression, Giving, Excellence

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• Yes, the long war on Christianity. I pray that one day we may live in an America where Christians can worship freely! In broad daylight! Openly wearing the symbols of their religion... perhaps around their necks? And maybe -- dare I dream it? -- maybe one day there can be an openly Christian President. Or, perhaps, 43 of them. Consecutively.

  Jon Stewart

  Christian, Dream, War

  "Graham's Last Crusade - June 26, 2005". abcnews.go.com.

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• Frodo drew himself up, and again Sam was startled by his words and his stern voice. 'On the Precious? How dare you?' he said. 'Think! Would you commit your promise to that, Smeagol? It will hold you. But it is more treacherous than you are. It may twist your words. Beware!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Thinking, Voice, Promise

  J.R.R. Tolkien (1973). “The Lord of the Rings part two the Two Towers”

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