Top 100 Who Dares Quotes
#1. Euripides long ago said, 'who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.' I nominated myself as an 'infidel' as a challenge to thought for those who are asleep.
Luther Burbank
#2. What is normal? Normal is only ordinary; mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different.
V.C. Andrews
#3. Let us always remember that he does not really believe his own opinion, who dares not give free scope to his opponent.
Wendell Phillips
#4. Who dares disturb my roses?"
Why did I say that
Alex Flinn
#5. The story of the English writing system is so intriguing, and the histories behind individual words so fascinating, that anyone who dares to treat spelling as an adventure will find the journey rewarding.
David Crystal
#6. The U.S. have printed money; they intend to tax the rich in order to avoid the fiscal cliff. These are things that sees anyone who dares to propose them in Greece and Europe labeled an extremist, when at the same time, it's what Obama does.
Alexis Tsipras
#7. For each of us is
A separate miracle
In a collective miracle
Brought together
For a moment
By a group of notes
And a scan of words
From the heart
Of one
Who dares
To think
That others
Might feel
As he feels
Leonard Nimoy
#9. He wants worth who dares not praise a foe.
John Dryden
#10. One can disintegrate the world by means of very strong light. For weak eyes the world becomes solid, for still weaker eyes it seems to develop fists, for eyes weaker still it becomes shamefaced and smashes anyone who dares to gaze upon it.
Franz Kafka
#11. A true brave man is the one who dares to work against personal interest.
Khem Veasna
#12. Life loves the person who dares to live it.
Maya Angelou
#13. I have been very fortunate in [the entertainment] business, and I am very grateful for that. I wish the same for everyone out there, especially everyone who dares to dream.
Jorja Fox
#14. Who dares to be intellectual in the presence of death?
Freya Stark
#15. Who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.
Euripides
#16. Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#17. O rose, who dares to name thee?
No longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet,
But pale, and hard, and dry, as stubblewheat,
Kept seven years in a drawer, thy titles shame thee.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#18. Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves.
Ovid
#19. Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")
Albert Camus
#21. The only way to do a thing Is do it when you can, And do it cheerfully, and sing And work and think and plan. The only real unhappy one Is he who dares to shirk; The only really happy one Is he who cares to work.
L. Frank Baum
#22. I was made, by the law, a criminal, not because of what I had done, but because of what I stood for, because of what I thought, because of my conscience ... If I had my time over I would do the same again. So would any man who dares call himself a man.
Nelson Mandela
#24. Anyone who dares to lay hands on the highest image of the Lord commits sacrilege against the benevolent creator of this miracle and contributes to the expulsion from paradise.
Adolf Hitler
#25. A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin
#26. After many unhappy experiments in the direction of an ideal Republic, it was found that what may be described as a Despotism tempered by Dynamite provides, on the whole, the most satisfactory description of ruler - an autocrat who dares not abuse his autocratic power.
W.S. Gilbert
#27. It is a brave man ... who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.
James A. Garfield
#28. Rebellion against a king may be pardoned, or lightly punished, but the man who dares to rebel against the laws of a republic ought to suffer death.
Samuel Adams
#29. We're saying to anyone who dares to attack us, Do not do it, you couldn't win, the result would be devastating! I think you're saying the same.
Margaret Thatcher
#31. There is nothing more dreadful to an author than neglect; compared with which reproach, hatred, and opposition are names of happiness; yet this worst, this meanest fate, every one who dares to write has reason to fear.
Samuel Johnson
#32. There is nothing, indeed, which God will not do for a man who dares to step out upon what seems to be the mist; though as he puts his foot down he finds a rock beneath him.
F.B. Meyer
#33. It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
Martial
#34. Any woman who dares to make her own destiny will always put herself in danger.
Philippa Gregory
#35. If a Devil is one who dares, when others hold back, then I am happy to play the Devil in this Mystery, boy.
Neil Gaiman
#36. He who dares to speak with a razor sharp tongue, shall in end, bare the final scar.
Robert M. Hensel
#37. The intent and not the deed
Is in our power; and, therefore, who dares greatly
Does greatly.
John Brown
#38. He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not, is a slave.
William Drummond
#40. Tell a man you have a plan, he may follow you, but he may doubt you in time, question you, and force you to change the plan. Tell a man God gave you a plan, and who dares to question it?
Brad Vance
#42. This love of money is the curse of American, and for the sake of it men will sell honor and honesty, till we don't know whom to trust, and it is only a genius like Agassiz who dares to say, 'I cannot waste my time in getting rich,' said Mrs. Jessie sadly.
Louisa May Alcott
#43. An entrepreneur is someone who dares to dream the dreams and is foolish enough to try to make those dreams come true.
Vinod Khosla
#44. The individual who dares commit a crime is guilty in a two-fold sense; first, he is guilty against human conscience, and, above all, he is guilty against the State in arrogating to himself one of its most precious privileges.
Mikhail Bakunin
#45. In other words, who dares to strike today,when having the security of a permanent job is itself becoming a privilege?
Slavoj Zizek
#47. Fortune sides with him who dares.
Virgil
#48. Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die ... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.
A.A. Milne
#49. Whether the Bushes, or whoever they are, they always end up in the end with the money and the ability to really blow away anybody who dares challenge them.
Chris Matthews
#50. [But] the man who dares not expose his life in the defence of his children and his property, has lost in society the first and most active energies of nature.
Edward Gibbon
#52. Power is given only to the one who dares to reach down and take it.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#53. It was a mistake and I made the mistake because I was conservative and played safe. And that way lies failure." "Must do it ... constantly go to the well ... constantly try, try, try. Dare. Dare, Dare. Who dares wins
Peter O'Toole
#54. Scottish philosopher William Drummond, read: "He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot reason is a fool; he who dares not reason is a slave.
Jonathan Eig
#55. Who Dares Wins...
I Dared...
Words spoken by many, but realised by few..
Ashton E. Silver
#56. Furniture manufacturing in plastics requires very costly machinery, which the Danish market is not big enough to justify. Or so they say. But show me a plastics manufacturer who dares to take on the experiment.
Arne Jacobsen
#58. But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.
Anne Bronte
#60. She is very important to me. And it would be the height of stupidity to harm her by word or deed, because I will eviscerate anyone who dares to do so.
Suzanne Wright
#62. A man of no religion, who dares use pain as a weapon, tainting it for mundane things
Aliette De Bodard
#63. Meoraq swung around and raked his eyes over the whole of them. "Who dares order me to silence?" "I do," said Amber. "Shut up.
R. Lee Smith
#64. That is not what Geek means to me. We are more than the hobbies that we do or the things that we like. To me, Geek means an outsider, a rebel, a dreamer, a creator, a fighter. It's a person who dares to love something that isn't conventional.
Felicia Day
#65. Fisherman deceives the fish with bait; this action makes the fisherman dishonest! For a fisherman to be honest, he must not put any bait to his fishhook! He who dares to be ideally honest, let him know how hard it is to be such an honest!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#66. Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the truly passionate painter who dares-and who has once broken the spell of 'you can't.'
Vincent Van Gogh
#67. Big is beautiful" may be a clever slogan, but God still asks, "Who dares despise the day of small things?" (Zech.4:10)...A few loaves and fishes fed thousands. Little is much if God is in it.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#68. Fortune sides with he who dares
Virgil
#69. The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access
Timothy Keller
#71. Trust in the person's promise who dares to refuse what they fear they cannot perform.
Charles Spurgeon
#72. When I grow up I mean to be
A Lion large and fierce to see.
I'll mew so loud that Cook in fright
Will give me all the cream in sight.
And anyone who dares to say
'Poor Puss' to me will rue the day.
Then having swallowed him I'll creep
Into the Guest Room Bed to sleep.
Oliver Herford
#73. A thousand years of torture rule, The knave who dares to harm a fool." I
Christopher Moore
#74. In this world of rights, the one who dares to be wrong, discovers the truth.
Saurabh Sharma
#75. The rush I got from crime was better than that of glue, drink or hash. I loved playing cat and mouse with the local coppers. He Who Dares Wins, the SAS motto, was very applicable to my life then.
Stephen Richards
#76. O' who will walk with me along lifes merry way? A comrade blithe and full of glee, who dares to laugh out loud and free ...
Henry Van Dyke
#77. He said you were very dangerous."
"No more dangerous than anyone else who dares to speak the truth.
Jasper Fforde
#78. Without courage, there is no luck and no hope. He who dares, wins.
Bryce Courtenay
#79. Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up. There is only one thing, one thing needful: one has only to dare!
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#80. And now 'tis man who dares assault the sky ... And as we come to claim our promised place, Aim only to replay the good you gave, And warm with human love the chill of space.
Thomas Goddard Bergin
#81. In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.
John Stuart Mill
#82. I have learned by experience that a tragic end awaits anyone who dares cross swords with me; Nasser is no more, John and Robert Kennedy died at the hands of assassins, their brother Edward has been disgraced, Krushchev was toppled, the list is endless.
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
#83. Who could truly set His shield to rest?
His throne? His mighty spear?
Think on that. Remember it well, O princes.
Who could lay waste to Tenochtitlan?
Who dares assail the foundation of heaven?
David Bowles
#84. Who can protest alone? Who dares rise up? It is not easy. One is all alone, and evermore shall be so.
Michael Leunig
#85. John Lott documents how far 'politically correct' vested interests are willing to go to denigrate anyone who dares disagree with them. Lott has done us all a service by his thorough, thoughtful scholarly approach to a highly controversial issue.
Milton Friedman
#86. Among the noblest in the land - Though man may count himself the least - That man I honor and revere, Who without favor, without fear, In the great city dares to stand, The friend of every friendless beast.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#88. It is the surest proof of man's natural enmity against God that he dares to impute falsehood to one who is truth itself.
Charles Spurgeon
#89. We can afford to follow Him to failure. Faith dares to fail. The resurrection and the judgment will demonstrate before all worlds who won and who lost. We can wait.
A.W. Tozer
#90. So often I speak of "out of the box thinking" and living a "conscious life"; however, not regularly do I meet someone who lives such a life. What an inspiration (and challenge) to see someone who really lives in the now, who looks forward and dares to stop when thoughts turn to pain from the past!
Paula Heller Garland
#91. It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.
Junius
#92. Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under Fortune's false lottery, desperately run To death, for dread of death; that soul's most stout, That, bearing all mischance, dares last it out.
Francis Beaumont
#93. Crowded hallways, are the loneliest places, for outcasts and rebels,or anyone who just dares to be different.
Hunter Hayes
#94. In this place of light: he dares to live
Who stops being a bird, yet beats his wings
Against the immense immeasurable emptiness of things.
Theodore Roethke
#95. Remember, this is the time of the cockatrice. It has hatched from its egg. So who now dares say what will be?
Philip Dodd
#96. The student who uses home made apparatus, which is always going wrong, often learns more than one who has the use of carefully adjusted instruments, to which he is apt to trust and which he dares not take to pieces.
James Clerk Maxwell
#97. But who names a starship the Icarus? What kind of man possess that much hubris, that he dares it to fall?
Amie Kaufman
#98. She was like a bride-to-be who begins to feel her sickening qualms as the day approaches, and dares not speak her mind because so many preparations have been made on her behalf the happiness and convenience of so many good people would be put at risk.
Ian McEwan
#99. Works of art always spring from those who have faced the danger, gone to the very end of an experience, to the point beyond which no human being can go. The further one dares to go, the more decent, the more personal, the more unique a life becomes.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#100. This is the secret that none dares tell who fights for a cause. Dying, we are all alike.
Jacqueline Carey
