Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.
Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom.
Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.
I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.