Quotes Tagged "daring"

Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.

If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.

The world’s greatest achievers have been those who have always stayed focussed on their goals and have been consistent in their efforts.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

You can't outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little sidebets about the outcome of life. either you wade in and risk everything you have to play the game or you don't play at all. and if u don't play u can't win.

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

Courage to me is doing something daring, no matter how afraid, insecure, intimidated, alone, unworthy, incapable, ridiculed or whatever other paralyzing emotion you might feel. Courage is taking action....no matter what.  So you're afraid? Be afraid.  Be scared silly to the point you're trembling and nauseous, but do it anyway!

The greatest obsession is I believe in myself.

Once I stare into the face of God, I can stare into the face of anything.

Act as if it was, and it will be.

With a hint of good judgment, to fear nothing, not failure or suffering or even death, indicates that you value life the most. You live to the extreme; you push limits; you spend your time building legacies. Those do not die.

I think that the stories that God has told and the things that He has done seem utter implausible to us only because we lock Him into the tiny rubrics that the stories He has told and the things that He has done invite us outside of.

It is in boldly unleashing our faith that we effectively leash our fears.

The excitement of dreams coming true is beyond the description of words.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds -- justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can't go on. To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.

It would be an act of wisdom to depart immediately… but wisdom is itself the product of knowledge; and knowledge, unfortunately, is generally the product of foolish doings. So, to add to my own knowledge and to enhance my wisdom I shall remain another day, to see what occurs.

I hardly ever see new plays. They don't have the audacity and daring that they used to.

I like to wear things that are daring but also not seem too avant-garde.

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