Daring Quotes

• Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Success, Courage

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• It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

  Cecil Beaton

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that the believer would stake his life on it a thousand times.

  Martin Luther

  God, Faith, Men

  "Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings".

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• Devote today to something so daring even you can't believe you're doing it.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Powerful, Believe, Today

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• Be daring. Be first. Be different.

  Anita Roddick

  Business, Individuality, Different

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• If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run-and often in the short one-the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Running, Science, Discovery

  Arthur C. Clarke (1968). “the Promise of Space”

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• I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Fear, Believe

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• The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

  Horace

  Power, Risk, Fancy

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• A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Inspirational, Photography, Cutting

  "Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing" by Larry Chang, (p. 412), 2006.

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• Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

  Publilius Syrus

  Memorial Day, Courage, Fear

  "Sentences". Collection by Publilius Syrus. Maxim 63,

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• Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

  William Arthur Ward

  Life, Caring, Abundance Of Love

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• Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It's difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it's the greatest gift we have.

  Jon Voight

  Travel, Adventure, Risk

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• No one reaches a high position without daring.

  Publilius Syrus

  Confidence, Courage, Fear

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p.160, Maxims, 1922.

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• Against the bold, daring is unsafe.

  Ovid

  Unsafe

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• There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.

  Indira Gandhi

  Women, Memorable, Atheism

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

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Imagination, Effort, Literature

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “Sherlock Holmes Complete Collection With illustrated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 4 Novels, 56 Short Stories and 120+ illustrations”, p.232, Ageless Reads

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• We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Boys, Simple, Energy

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• As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art that is daring and, when appropriate, daringly traditional

  Gavin Newsom

  Art, Support, Range

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• 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 best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Motivational, Courage, Strong

  Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

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• What you must dare: is to be yourself.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Being Yourself, Individuality, Dare

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• Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.

  Quintus Ennius

  Deeds, Worthy, Foe

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• Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence; faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.

  Sherwood Eddy

  Faith, Believe, Trying

  Sherwood Eddy (1934). “A Pilgrimage of Ideas: Or, The Re-education of Sherwood Eddy”

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• I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Courage, Peace, Believe

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (2010). “Wof : Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi”, p.30, Penguin Books India

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