Daring Quotes - Page 21

• The tennis challenger starts strong but soon loses confidence in his playing. The champion racks up the games. But in the final set, when the challenger has nothing left to lose, he becomes relaxed again, insouciant, daring. Suddenly he's playing like the devil and the champion must work hard to get those last points.

  Yann Martel

  Strong, Hard Work, Games

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.149, Vintage Canada

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• Southern women see no point in the hard way. Life is hard enough. So we add a little sugar to the sour. Which is not to suggest Southern women are disingenuous cream puffs. Quite the opposite. When you are born into a history as loaded as the South’s, when you carry in your bones the incontrovertible knowledge of man’s violence and limitations, daring to stay sweet is about the most radical thing you can do.

  Allison Glock

  Sweet, Men, Opposites

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• Nobody brings ancient history and archaeology to life like Adrienne Mayor. From the Russian steppes to China, and from Roman Egypt and Arabia to the Etruscans, she leads the reader on a breathtaking quest for the real ancient warrior women reflected in myths--their daring, archery, tattoos, fine horses, and independence from male control. The book's rich erudition, communicated in sparkling prose and beautiful illustrations, makes it a riveting read.

  Edith Hall

  Tattoo, Beautiful, Horse

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• I must confess that I too am a woman and that I am always prepared to applaud a woman who is more daring than I, and is equal to a man in fighting for freedom of behavior.

  Paul Gauguin

  Fighting, Men, Behavior

  Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

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• With each new experience of letting God be in control, we gain courage and reinforcement for daring to do it again and again.

  Gloria Gaither

  Letting Go, New Experiences, Gains

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• ORU is a daring new concept in higher education. It was planned to be from the beginning, one that would be able and willing to innovate change in all three basic aspects of your being - the intellectual, the physical and the spiritual.

  Oral Roberts

  Spiritual, Intellectual, Would Be

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• Gilbert darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings scads of trouble and typhoid and twins!" (Anne to Gilbert)

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Slavery, Twins, Trouble

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “ANNE SHIRLEY Complete Series - ALL 14 Books in One Volume: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more: Including the Memoirs & Letters of Lucy Maud Montgomery”, p.804, e-artnow

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• Be shocking, be daring, be bold, be passionate.

  Jane Porter

  Passionate, Shocking

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• I do assert that one prepares for eternity not by being religious and keeping the rules, but by living fully, loving wastefully, and daring to be all that each of us has the capacity to be.

  John Shelby Spong

  Religious, Christianity, Eternity

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• Leadership is all about caring, daring and sharing!
  Caring for people, Daring to Act fearlessly,
  & Sharing the success with all!

  Sujit Lalwani

  Caring, People

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• The only way of full knowledge lies in the act of love; this act transcends thought, it transcends words. It is the daring plunge into the experience of union. To love somebody is not just a strong feeling-it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Strong, Lying

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• When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

  Robert Henri

  Artist, Self, Alive

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• We elect our Presidents, be they Republican or Democrat, then start daring 'em to make good.

  Will Rogers

  Political, President, Politics

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• When we practice generating compassion, we can expect to experience our fear of pain. Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allow ourselves to move gently toward what scares us. The trick to doing this is to stay with emotional distress without tightening into aversion, to let fear soften us rather than harden into resistance.

  Pema Chodron

  Pain, Moving, Emotional

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• A company in which anyone is afraid to speak up, to differ, to be daring and original, is closing the coffin door on itself.

  Leo Burnett

  Doors, Coffins, Speak

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• If 3,000 people perished in the World Trade Center attacks and the Jewish population is 10 percent, you show me records of 300 Jewish people dying in the World Trade Center…We’re daring anyone to dispute its truth. They got their people out.

  Malik Zulu Shabazz

  People, Dying, Population

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• His hands as he worked were deft and sure, but so gentle -- he was being careful not to hurt me any more than he had to. I sat very still, hardly daring to move. I was in love with him. The knowledge swept through me, truer than anything I'd ever known. Oh, my God, I was in love with him.

  L.A. Weatherly

  Hurt, Moving, Hands

  L.A. Weatherly (2010). “Angel: The Angel Trilogy”, p.158, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.

  Victor Hugo

  Progress, Splendid, Conquest

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• Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  God, Wise, Wisdom

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• What is the cost of not daring? What is the cost of not trying?

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Thought Provoking, Trying, Cost

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• In misfortune we often mistake dejection for constancy; we bear it without daring to look on it; like cowards, who suffer themselves to be murdered without resistance.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mistake, Suffering, Coward

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• Imagination is the voice of the daring.

  Henry Miller

  Voice, Imagination

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• I think I'm a weird combination of deeply introverted and very daring. I can feel both those things working.

  Helen Hunt

  Thinking, Introvert, Combination

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• Before Santa and presents and shopping and all the attendant Christmas (stuff) got involved, this holiday was enshrined to commemorate a guy who got nailed to a tree for daring to tell people to be kind to one another. If you have two cloaks, He said, give one away. Remember those who have less than you, be charitable, be good, be merciful.

  William Rivers Pitt

  Holiday, Shopping, Two

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• When you're 25, it's a little bit easier to be daring, especially if you are a pop star, because eccentric behavior is expected from you.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Stars, Littles, Eccentric

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