Quotes of Daring - somelinesforyou

“ I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache. ”

- Lewis Carroll

“ To show the world what long experience gains, Requires not courage, though it calls for pains; But at life's outset to inform mankind Is a bold effort of a valiant mind. ”

- George Crabbe

“ No one reaches a high position without daring. ”

- Publilius Syrus

“ You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. ”

- Mary Tyler Moore

“ Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. ”

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

“ Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward! ”

- Thomas A. Edison

“ With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“ Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened. ”

- Billy Graham

“ He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. ”

- Jonathan Swift

“ The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure — fearlessness and achievement. ”

- Joseph Campbell

“ Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, magic and power in it. Begin it now. ”

- Goethe

“ Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause. ”

- Homer

“ How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old. ”

- Thomas Babington Macaulay

“ Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.". ”

- Mary Tyler Moore

“ Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work. ”

- Pliny the Elder

“ I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster. ”

- Catherine II

“ Daring is not safe against daring men. ”

- Ovid

“ A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within. ”

- Eudora Welty

“ I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within. ”

- Eudora Welty

“ Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'! ”

- Audrey Hepburn

“ The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity, for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and run away even before he comes near them, the fly lights upon his very nose. ”

- Arthur Schopenhauer

“ The god-like hero sate On his imperial throne: His valiant peers were placed around, Their brows with roses and with myrtles bound (So should desert in arms be crowned). The lovely Thais by his side, Sate like a blooming Eastern bride In flower of youth and beauty's pride… ”

- John Dryden

“ Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. ”

- Helen Keller

“ Security is an illusion. Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all. ”

- Keller

“ There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten. ”

- Indira Gandhi

“ Life changed after that jump…I'd suddenly stepped to the highest level of daring, a level above even that which airplane pilots could attain. ”

- Charles Lindbergh

“ Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. ”

- Goethe

“ A show of daring oft conceals great fear. ”

- Lucan
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