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  Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1250, Faber & Faber

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• It is courage based on confidence, not daring, and it is confidence based on experience.

  Jonas Salk

  On testing his vaccine against polio on himself, his wife, and his three sons, May 9, 1955.

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• London is a good fashion city. They're a little more daring. There's the element of the aristocracy, which is always interesting.

  John Legend

  Fashion, Cities, Interesting

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• Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a bad time of it.

  Anton Chekhov

  Avant Garde, Firsts, Life Is

  Letter to A.S. Suvorin, May 14, 1889.

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• It's daring to be curious about the unknown, to dream big dreams, to live outside prescribed boxes, to take risks, and above all, daring to investigate the way we live until we discover the deepest treasured purpose of why we are here.

  Luci Swindoll

  Dream, Risk, Way

  Luci Swindoll (2003). “I Married Adventure”, p.9, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I always say, better ask forgiveness than permission.

  Christopher Paolini

  Forgiveness, Eragon, Permission

  "Fictional character: Brom". "Eragon", www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire - the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Courage, Heart, Feet

  H P Blavatsky (2015). “The Voice of the Silence: Being Extracts from The Book of the Golden Precepts”, p.54, Quest Books

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• No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Agreement, Two

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• If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.

  Xunzi

  Bravery, Fierce, Guidance

  Xunzi, John Knoblock (1988). “Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works”, p.153, Stanford University Press

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• Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies.

  Robert Dale Owen

  Leadership, Men, Emergencies

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• Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.

  Emma Goldman

  Change, Race, Vision

  Emma Goldman (1998). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”

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• Daring is not safe against daring men.

  Ovid

  Men, Risk, Safe

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• But I think the other is a little more like bullfighting, a little more daring and although I appreciate good acting and I liked being versatile my whole career, it kept me working.

  Robert Klein

  Fighting, Thinking, Careers

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 19, 2005.

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• I never made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires.

  Steve Buscemi

  Fire, People, Stories

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• I have always been adventurous and rather daring.

  Robert Vaughn

  Adventurous

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• The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Courage, Character, Men

  Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark Letter 19 (1796)

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• I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.

  Ed Harris

  Thinking, People, Way

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• In crises the most daring course is often safest.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Crisis, Courses

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• I find the most interesting and most daring scripts tend to be for independent films.

  Neve Campbell

  Independent, Interesting, Scripts

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• Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Courage, Clever

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• All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Life, Success, Courage

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• Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Success, Fate

  Mary Kay Ash (1986). “Mary Kay”, Harper Perennial

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• It's really nice to go down to an extremely low-budget movie, but that is very daring and courageous and try something different, where the roles usually are more complicated.

  Stellan Skarsgard

  Nice, Trying, Different

  "Stellan Skarsgard Exclusive Interview; Talks THOR, MELANCHOLIA, and David Fincher’s THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 29, 2010.

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• Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Progress, Adaptation

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.251, New Directions Publishing

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