Dare To Dream Quotes

“The only way I knew how to live the best day ever was on an expedition.”
― Hendri Coetzee

“As puzzled as I was by my classmates’ assumptions, their classification of me as a Black American nonetheless comforted me. Could it be that now, finally, I had my own group to belong to? Would Black Americans claim me just because the whites assigned me to them?”
― Maria Nhambu, America's Daughter

“With tears of joy, I recalled Fat Mary’s role in my childhood. She had been my consoler and counselor since the day I understood I was alone in the world and had no one who loved me or wanted me. I had decided back then that I would love me, fat me, just as I was. Her role was also to safeguard the meaningful and happy moments of my childhood and bring them to me when I needed to remember life’s goodness.”
― Maria Nhambu, America's Daughter

“In your heart, you will always be African, but in America you are a Black American. It is possible and desirable to be both.”
― Maria Nhambu, America's Daughter

“It is not about forgetting but about not letting the past define you. It is about learning from it and embracing its role as your lifetime teacher.”
― Maria Nhambu, America's Daughter

“Discovering dance and its power to heal my soul played a key role in my survival.”
― Maria Nhambu, America's Daughter

“To them I was first a Black, then a Black from another country, and then a person.”
― Maria Nhambu, America's Daughter

“There is no such thing as immunity from the joy or pain of the past.”
― Maria Nhambu, America's Daughter

“Haven’t I always said that no amount of beating, ridicule, or degradation could change your beauty, inside or out?”
― Maria Nhambu, America's Daughter

“In their hearts, they know that we are all created equal in the eyes of God and the universe. Whoever thinks otherwise will never be happy.”
― Maria Nhambu, America's Daughter

“What was wrong with these American students? Didn’t they know I was the teacher and they had to do as I said? I learned quickly that my authority meant little, if anything, to them. I was not the all-powerful and feared mwalimu (teacher) of Africa.”
― Maria Nhambu, America's Daughter

“I was suffering from a profound disease called culture shock and a severe case of homesickness. My brain was exhausted trying to figure out a lifestyle and living standards that everyone took for granted and few bothered to explain.”
― Maria Nhambu, America's Daughter

“Standing up for your human rights is what you must always do.”
― Maria Nhambu, America's Daughter

“A key element in everyone’s hero’s journey is the “decision point,” the moment when, often following a crisis, the hero is confronted by a major choice, a crossroad, a life redirection, a safe or a risky option. Choose one path and your life changes in a certain way, choose another and you veer off into an alternate reality.”
― Paul Spencer Sochaczewski, "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion

“One question that has challenged me for some 50 years, is where did Ali “retire” after parting with Wallace in Singapore in 1862? Did he return to his home in Sarawak? Did he return to the spice island of Ternate, where Wallace said he had a family?”
― Paul Spencer Sochaczewski, "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion

“Wishes are possibilities. Dare to make a wish.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“What she actually wanted was to see the world, the way Father had when he was a young man. She had found all sorts of geography books and atlases in the library---books about the Orient, full of steaming rain forests and moths the size of dinner plates ("ghastly things," according to Father), and about Africa, where scorpions glittered like jewels in the sand.
Yes, one day she would leave Orton Hall and travel the world---as a scientist.
A biologist, she hoped, or maybe an entomologist? Something to do with animals, anyway, which in her experience were far preferable to humans. Nanny Metcalfe often spoke of the terrible fright Violet had given her when she was little: she had walked into the nursery one night to find a weasel, of all things, in Violet's cot.
"I screamed blue murder," Nanny Metcalfe would say, "but there you were, right as rain, and that weasel curled up next to you, purring like a kitten.”
― Emilia Hart, Weyward

“Until one breaks self-imposed barriers in the mind, success becomes a wild goose chase.”
― Bernard Kelvin Clive

“Shout out to all the people who still have a book brewing inside of them. You are about to birth something incredible if only you keep pushing.”
― Germany Kent

“It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
― Teddy Roosevelt

“Don't be afraid of the dare to dream.”
― Rhett Downing, Crocodile Tears

“—and indeed, a dare to dream is momentous with all its zealous natures and all its ardent toils.”
― Rhett Downing, Crocodile Tears

“Don’t just follow or chase your dreams; hunt them.”
― Emmanuel Apetsi

“The last day of yesterday and the first day of tomorrow is enough to let us reinvent the new Africa, powered by limitless innovations.”
― Emmanuel Apetsi

“Having thousands of birds in the sky doesn't stop you from flying your kite.”
― Kolade.Emma

“Oh, honey, "impossible" must be quaking in its boots 'cause we're here to crash its party! We're the dream-chasers, the rule-breakers, and the magic-makers. So, if you dare us to try, just watch us turn the impossible into our playground! Ready or not, here we come, turning dreams into reality, one witty step at a time!”
― lifeispositive.com

“As we dare, so we share.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“The FUTURE is AGENTIC—embrace the rise of AI AGENTS and catapult humanity into an era of unprecedented cognitive augmentation and creative synergy!”
― Emmanuel Apetsi

“When you dare to dream beyond every horizon, your ambition becomes boundless—transforming obstacles into stepping stones toward greatness.”
― Emmanuel Apetsi

“We carry our past like a hidden map—only when we dare to unfold it can we see where we are meant to go.”
― Elena Langley, Metro B: A woman’s awakening in the underground of Rome