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Quotes about Daring

The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.
- Aristotle
One who is by nature daring and is suffering from poverty will not long be law-abiding. Indeed, any men, save those that are truly good, if their sufferings are very great, will be likely to rebel.
- Confucius
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt
History which is not professedly utilitarian, history which is didactic only as great poetry is unconsciously didactic, may yet possess that highest form of usefulness, the power to thrill the souls of men with stories of strength and craft and daring, and to lift them out of their common selves to the heights of high endeavor.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Wear audacious underwear under the most solemn business attire.
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare.
- Audre Lorde
Knowing About Victoria Woodhull inspires women to be daring, outrageous and creative.
- Gloria Steinem
Once when Stonewall Jackson planned a daring attack, one of his generals fearfully objected, saying, "I am afraid of this" or "I fear that …" Putting his hand on his timorous subordinate's shoulder, Jackson said, "General, never take counsel of your fears.
- Norman Vincent Peale
I'm fixin to go do somethin dumbern hell but I'm goin anyways. If I dont come back tell Mother I love her. Your mother's dead Llewelyn. Well I'll tell her myself then.
- Cormac McCarthy
We think in terms of apostolic journeys. God dares to put His greatest ambassadors in chains.
- Watchman Nee
It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
- Dag Hammarskjold