Daring Quotes

Life is a daring adventure or nothing. (Helen Keller)
Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything. View quote
Henry Miller
Security is mostly a superstition. It 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 outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. View quote
Helen Keller
Dostoyevsky is ahead of his time - a few daring steps. You follow him, dizzying, fearful, incredulous; but you follow. He won't let loose, you have to follow. ... You simply have to call him unique. He comes from nowhere and belongs nowhere. And yet he is always a Russian. View quote
Joseph Goebbels
What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador - an adventurer, if you want it translated - with all the curiosity, daring, and tenacity characteristic of a man of this sort. View quote
Sigmund Freud
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. View quote
Ed Harris
If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just. View quote
Anita Roddick
The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful to society, had that society been well organized. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
It is courage based on confidence, not daring, and it is confidence based on experience. View quote
Jonas Salk
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)
All serious daring starts from within. View quote
Eudora Welty
The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell the truth. View quote
H. L. Mencken
If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run-and often in the short one-the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
Actions speak louder than words. In the days to come the Goddess of Victory will bestow her laurels only on those who prepared to act with daring. View quote
Heinz Guderian
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. View quote
Emma Goldman
I have always been adventurous and rather daring. View quote
Robert Vaughan
I never made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires. View quote
Steve Buscemi
There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten. View quote
Indira Gandhi
O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence; live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge men's search To vaster issues. View quote
George Eliot
As to the Income Tax, my opinion is that the needful revenue would be fairly and most fairly raised if paid by property, and by individuals in proportion to their property...A Property Tax should be an assessment upon all land and buildings, and canals and railroads, but not on property such as machinery, stock in trade, etc. The aristocracy have squeezed all they can out of the mass of the consumers, and now they lay their daring hands on those not wholly impoverished. (John Bright)
Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring. View quote
Henry Miller
From a town known as Wheeling, West Virginia Rode a boy with a six-gun in his hand And his daring life of crime made him a legend in his time East and west of the Rio Grande. Well, he started with a bank in Colorado In the pocket of his vest a Colt he hid. And his age and his size took the teller by surprise, And the word spread of Billy the Kid. View quote
Billy Joel
i believe the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare. View quote
Maya Angelou
My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring, still. View quote
Maya Angelou