Dare Quotes

“Dangerous is the woman who can give herself what she used to seek from others. Limitless is the woman who dares to name herself. The way I see it, shame cannot oppress what acceptance has already claimed for sovereignty.”
― Tarana Burke, You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience

“When we play it safe, it causes us suffering. Not daring means not honoring what it is we really want to do, to be, or to create in this world.”
― David Taylor-Klaus

“You deserve safety.
You deserve protection.
You deserve love.
You deserve peace.
Breathe beloved.
Let's do it together. Right now!
Breathe in what I'm saying. Breathe out what you were thinking.
We tell the world they don't have to be anything but themselves to be worthy. And then we work until the stress is about to kill us to prove our worth. It's not just you. It’s not just us. It's the paradox of deeply melanated women. But right now I need you to hear me, because if we are still alive, then there is still hope to beat this thing.”
― Tarana Burke, You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience

“What is it to be bold?
To feel fear but pay it no heed. To take a chance despite the looming threat of failure. To risk ridicule while attempting something new and unusual. To ignore probabilities. To scorn the odds. To hope, to dream, to dare to fly. This is to be bold.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year

“If you think you can, that is great. But until you try, you will never know for certain.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year

“Dare and the world always yields.”
― Terry O'Reilly

“Ah, list it to me, young Leander, young Hero, young Alexander. If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“Dare to live daily your dreams, it is enough grace.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Men often do not dare the difficult.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“I will say this: sheer repetition of a dare over time can be enough to drive a person into submission. Insane submission.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year

“Stop it! Just give me a second!”

“Alright, alright, everyone—” Hank flashed his palms like stop signs and then waved them around as if he were a city flagman exercising his authority to halt traffic. “Stand back, stand back—hands to yourself... in your pockets… there you go.” Hank loved the spotlight and demanded it whenever opportunity presented itself. For once, I actually welcomed his inflated need for attention. The pressing against my back let up, and my friends stepped aside.

Pausing first for dramatic effect (typical Hank) he drew in a deep breath and delivered an improvised monologue (also typical Hank.)

“People, people, people… look at what you’re doing. Can’t you see the effect you’re having on this sweet, innocent frightened child? I mean, what is up with the sudden aggressive-mob behavior here? Remember, people, this is our friend! Our colleague! Our schoolmate, chum, pal, our number-one supporter most days! Does she deserve this kind of peer pressure? …this group coercion? …this physical harassment? I say nay! Nay, I tell you! Now I know how excited you are to see her fi~nal~ly agree—after many, many grueling months of relentless persuading—to become one of us. To attempt a mad stab at initiation. To feel what it is to be spectacular! But give the girl some room to breathe! If you push a frightened lamb, she’s gonna turn tail and scamper off in the opposite direction, baaaahhing all the way. Then what will our efforts be for? For naught, I say! For naught! So the question here isn’t will she move or not move, but rather will she dare or not dare?”

“The actual question is: are you gonna shut it or have us shut it for you?” Cory piped in with a pantomimed zip of the lip.

Hank scoffed, blowing his bangs out of his face with a contrary huff, but he didn’t say another word.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year

“Fear itself had turned out to be more dreadful than the actual doing. How crazy is that?”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year

“Look at me. Really look at me, please. I dare you to look at me and know me and love me.”
― Kate Racculia, Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts

“There is something darkly thrilling about standing on the balcony of a very tall building and looking over the edge with the silent knowledge that it is in one's own power to jump. Jumping is, of course, very unwise --- an act fated to resolve itself in total self- annihilation. Let there be no illusions in that. And yet one is nonetheless tempted to consider the dare.”
― Suzanne Rindell, The Other Typist

“Life is wonderful- if only, you would dare to be yourself.”
― Hrishikesh Agnihotri, Enrich The World With Your Presence : HA's Original Quotes, Volume 01

“Dare to love, dare to reason, dare to live, without caution.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Solo Standing on Guard: Life Before Law

“We played the main role in the doing of some things we didn’t do, by saying they couldn’t or wouldn’t be done.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“There are dreams
You dare only whisper
To your inmost heart
Dreams you barely believe
For fear believing
Will blow them apart
These, these
Are dreams heaven
is now breathing
To breathgiving life”
― Jamie McIntosh

“Dare to hope.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“What's an idea? It's a little seed that is diligently and responsibly planted in the soil of the human space. It's a flash of inspiration that takes control of the mind and hands and feet. A distant opportunity brought closer. A change seen but not yet experienced. An 'unreasonable' suggestion pondered and acted on. A thought so innocuous. A feeling so fleeting. A fight almost dodged. A hope you are tempted to leave in the cooler. A power that towers all. Nothing happens without an idea. And every idea needs a daring man or woman. Isn't an IDEA better pronounced and understood as 'I DARE'?”
― Abiodun Fijabi

“Do, dare.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Dare to live divinely.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Dare the difficulty.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“We learn through ordeals, not from daring.”
― Mantaranjot Mangat, Plotless

“Kill me and live with the memory then tell the stars you won.”
― some tumblr shitpost

“It is in venturing into new territories and soaring new heights that we discover the unknown mysteries of the promised land and treasures hidden in secret places”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“Dare and do not despair.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Solo Standing on Guard: Life Before Law

“dare or sit down and stare.”
― Ujjwal Arora, Zen, Coffee & Potpourri: quotes, one liners & ramblings

“As a side-note, I will never tire of saying bludgeoned. I bet you used to say that a lot in the police, you lucky thing.”
― Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club

“Dream,
Dare,
Dance.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita