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• The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

  Bayard Taylor

  Courage, Engagement, Tenderness

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• As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.

  Adam Sedgwick

  Philosophy, Pyramids, Tower Of Babel

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• When the crowd appreciates you, it encourages you to be a little more daring, I think.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Thinking, Appreciate

  The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

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• It is born to every Western girl to like outdoor life and to do all kinds of wild, daring things.

  Pearl White

  Girl, Gdp, Kind

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• Every vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea.

  James Bryant Conant

  Inspirational, Business, Organization

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• No crime is so great as daring to excel.

  Winston Churchill

  Hypocrisy, Risk, Crime

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• The frontiers of the kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Courage, Men, Bravery

  J. Oswald Sanders (2007). “Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer”, p.128, Moody Publishers

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• And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

  Homer

  Life And Love, Literature

  Homer (2008). “The Odyssey: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.34, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.

  Horace

  Ambition, Heaven, Storm

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• Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be original; by destroying one's first productions.

  Andre Maurois

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• What man dare, I dare.
  Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear,
  The armed rhinoceros, or th' Hyrcan tiger;
  Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves
  Shall never tremble.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Nerves, Shapes

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 99

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• The most daring thing is to be yourself and to do exactly what you want to do at that point in time and not to be worried with what other people are doing or what's popular.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Being Yourself, People, Want

  Interview With Sowmya Krishnamurthy, www.askmen.com.

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• There are times when the utmost daring is the height of wisdom.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Height

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.167, Princeton University Press

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• The loving are the daring.

  Bayard Taylor

  Love, Engagement, First Love

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.246

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• Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

  Robert Kennedy

  Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

  Robert F. Kennedy (1967). “To seek a newer world”, Doubleday Books

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• We must dare, and dare again, and go on daring.

  Georges Danton

  Meaningful, Teaching, Learning

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• If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.

  Mario Andretti

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Driving With Mario Andretti, Who at 76, Still Refuses to Slow Down". Interview with Sam Smith, www.roadandtrack.com. June 24, 2016.

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• Faith is a living, daring, confidence in God's grace.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Grace, Confidence In God

  Martin Luther, J. Theodore Mueller (2003). “Commentary on Romans”, p.17, Kregel Publications

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• All glory comes from daring to begin.

  Eugene Fitch Ware

  Courage, Motivation, Business

  Eugene Fitch Ware (1899). “Some of the Rhymes of Ironquill [pseud.]: (A Book of Moods.) ...”

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• Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.

  Marsilio Ficino

  Dream, Freedom, Book

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• Great fear is concealed under daring.

  F. L. Lucas

  Fear, Overcoming, Concealed

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• Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

  Henry Miller

  God, Voice, Imagination

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.341, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

  Billy Wilder

  Trust, Mistake, Failure

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• Life is best organized as a series of daring ventures from a secure base

  John Bowlby

  Venture, Life Is, Organized

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