Daring Quotes

Yet how proud we are, In daring to look down upon ourselves!

Be curious. Be daring. Be different. Be yourself. And, if that doesn't work, be moi!

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.

Long sentences, awkward constructions, and fuzzy-wuzzy words that seem to apologize for daring to venture an opinion are part of the price the law reviews pay for their precious dignity.

Because for that day, I really did become Lulu. Maybe not from the film or the real Louise Brooks, but my own idea of what Lulu represented. Freedom. Daring. Adventure. Saying yes.

This nation is daring and decent and ready for change.

I felt like an apostle of the obvious and people imagined that I was doing something daring.

There have been women in the past far more daring than we would need to be now, who ventured all and gained a little, but survived after all.

Knowing About Victoria Woodhull inspires women to be daring, outrageous and creative.

Self-pity gets you nowhere. But insight to see that something can be done with the second-bests and adventurous daring to try might be a handle to take hold of.

Fidelity is simply daring to be true in small things as well as great.

Final-offer arbitration should have great appeal for the daring (the risk seekers) who play against the timid (the risk avoiders).

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

He was a little boy, and she was grown up. She huddled by the fire not daring to move, helpless and guilty, a big woman.

As Fallingwater demonstrates, Wright's genius was always specific, but also always lively, always daring.

The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of rearing and peering from the bent tip of a grass blade, looking for a route.

I was raised with opera and very white-bread folk music like The Kingston Trio. That was about as daring as it got. So when I discovered hip-hop as a teenager, at first it made no sense to me at all.

Bong Joon-ho is enormously sensitive to performance. He knows what he needs to see and that's all he needs to shoot. He is so daring. We don't do that in the west. We shoot everything.

Sometimes, at a certain point, the painting seems to have painted itself without my help - what I have called the 'eureka' moment when a sudden daring intervention has worked a miracle.

For though Duncan was a mere mortal, flawed as well, he'd accomplished a daring feat. Aye, he'd captured an angel. And she belonged to him.

[There's] this idea of "I want to take care of myself," but at the same time I want to be brave, daring, and expressive.

I wanted to undertake the challenge of daring to be great.

That which is not daring is nothing.

Pharoahe Monch is like an eloquent linguistics professor moonlighting as a rhyme serial killer terrorist, challenging the listeners' I.Q. while daring him or her to keep up.

It is the child that sees the primordial secret in Nature and it is the child of ourselves we return to. The child within us is simple and daring enough to live the Secret.

If I can't be daring in my work or the way I live my life, then I don't really see the point of being on this planet.

The heart is a tender but hardy organ. Daring to have a wonderful experience, even though you may get hurt, is the only way you'll realize its deepest desires.

Abyss-mongering makes professors and poets feel daring.

Through the centuries, we faced down death by daring to hope.

Your travel on the road to truth starts with daring to suspect your own believes!

There are some decisions in life that only you can make.

You are doing something very sacred here, something very daring, during your life upon the earth. You are defining yourself, and then creating yourself anew, in each golden moment of now.

I love to experiment with fashion. A lot of my inspiration comes from my mom. She is fearless with fashion! I love colors and anything daring.

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.

Then all that is needed is a little daring, and his two lives become one.

What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands.

A sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that elsewhere, in other regions of the universal powers, souls are now acting, enduring and daring, which can love us, and which we can love.

Classic is our daring, classic our cowardice. Classic is our cruelty, classic our charity.

It takes tenacity and daring to travel the darkest interior of one's self.

In a way, I was almost happy to see her. The worst part of me, out in the flesh. Blinking back at me in the dim light, daring me to call her a name other than my own.

Daring enthusiasm And abiding cheerfulness Can accomplish everything on earth Without fail.

Heroic ages are not and never were sentimental and those daring conquistadores who conquered entire worlds for their Spain or Portugal received lamentably little thanks from their kings.

Too many instances there are of daring men, who by presuming to sound the deep things of religion, have cavilled and argued themselves out of all religion.

A miracle to confound natural law, a baffling reversal of the inevitable consequences . . . a miracle. . . . An act of high imagination -- daring and lurid and impossible. Yes, a cartoon of the mind.

Go off-road...Practice a little daring.

There is an energy that you carry when you're nurturing another life where you're protecting first - and once you know that cub is out of the way of the hunter's gun, you can be a little more daring.

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

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

I like films that go a little more daring visually, and story-based stuff that usually reflects pretty closely to what real life is.

Once you accept an idea, it's an idea whose time has come.