DARE

Mom’s “one little word” is DARE (great one, Mom!).

There are cases in which the greatest daring is the greatest wisdom.   Karl von Clausewitz

A daring pilot in Extremity;   Pleas’d with the danger, when the waves went high,   He sought the storms; but for a calm unfit,   Would steer too nigh the sands, to boast his wit.   John Dryden

Dare to be Yourself.   Andre Gide

A daring beginning is halfway to winning.   Heinrich Heine

Over-daring is as great a vice as over-fearing.   Ben Jonson

Great daring often conceals great fear.   Lucan

Dare to think and dare to do.   Mao Tse-Tung

I have but dared too much.   Napoleon

Who dares, wins.   (saying)

It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living
I want to know what you ache for
and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing… ‘The Invitation,’ by Oriah Mountain Dreamer (POEM)

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life’s cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession… Do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.   Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.   Theodore Roosevelt 

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.   Seneca

I would my soul were like the bird That dares the vastness undeterred. Look, where the bluebird on the bough Breaks into rapture even now! He sings, tip-top, the tossing elm As tho he would a world o’erwhelm. Indifferent to the void he rides Upon the wind’s eternal tides.   He tosses gladly on the gale, For well he knows he can not fail— Knows if the bough breaks, still his wings Will bear him upward while he sings!   The Daring One by Edwin Markham