I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for.
a vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.
If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself.
None of us wants to admit that we hate someone. . . When we deny our hate we detour around the crisis of forgiveness. We suppress our spite, make adjustments, and make believe we are too good to be hateful. But the truth is that we do not dare to risk admitting the hate we feel because we do not dare to risk forgiving the person we hate.
it is no small comfort to me to know that God has called me to my work, putting me where I am and as I am. I have not sought the position, and I dare not leave it. He knows why He places me here-whether to do, or learn, or suffer.
In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish; that they will control the usual current of the passions, or prevent our nation from running the course which has hitherto marked the destiny of nations. . . . moderate the fury of party spirit, to warn against the mischiefs of foreign intrigue, to guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism; this hope will be a full recompense for the solicitude for your welfare, by which they have been dictated.
All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays. . . a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same.
The only way to fall in love is to allow yourself to be vulnerable. The only way to dare to dream and making incredible things happen is to be vulnerable.
What? You’d dare drink right after getting out of jail for intoxication?” That’s when you need a drink the most.
Matt Millen, you draft a wide receiver every year. HOW DARE YOU SIR, HOW DARE YOU!
There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.
It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is.
Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
I drink, I huff, I strut, look big and stare; And all this I can do, because I dare.
Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?
If we dare to come closer to our fellow human beings, we will be able to see and understand them better.
If the past year were offered me again, And choice of good and ill before me set Would I accept the pleasure with the pain Or dare to wish that we had never met?
Love should dare everything when it has everything to fear.
Dream what you dare to dream. Go where you want to go. Be what you want to be.