Poems that will challenge you to dare to be all that you can be.
The Poets encourages us to dare, to be more, to risk more, to live life to the
fullest by doing your best.
Be encouraged by these poems, let them give you thoughts to think about and
evaluate your life - do you play it safe and stay in a comfort zone or do you step up to the challenge
and try something that perhaps stretches or pushes you? Do you show boldness in the face of a challenge? Do you take the first step when you
see a need or do you wait for others to step up?
In life, we need to confront and take action rather than criticize and wait for others. And we need to
be first in some cases, the first to say hello, the first to give that smile, the first to speak up, the
first to look beyond today - that is daring!
We hope these poems inspire you and provide you with the motivation to dare to be!
Motivating words that will may challenge how you act and what you do.
What type of world would
it be if everyone acted as you do?
The Question Poet: Unknown
Were the whole world good as you – not an atom better –
Were it just as pure and true,
Just as strong in faith and works;
Just as free from crafty quirks;
All extortion, all deceit;
Schemes its neighbors to defeat;
Schemes its neighbors to defraud;
Schemes some culprit to applaud –
Would this world be better?
If the whole world followed you – followed to the letter
Would it be a nobler world,
All deceit and falsehood hurled
From it altogether;
Malice, selfishness, and lust,
Banished from beneath the crust,
Covering human hearts from view
Tell me, if it followed you,
Would the world be better?
A poem to encourage you to pick which side of life you will live on!
Life Is Poet: William Arthur Ward
Life is a strange, two-sided thing...
A dirge to chant, or a song to sing;
A sad, cold world, or a thrilling place,
A tough, old grind, or an exciting race.
A drudge-filled chore, or a challenging dare,
A thorny bush, or a flower fair.
A task to do or a chance to give,
A day to spend or a life to live!
Brave, famous words of inspiration from the 26th president of the United States.
Daring Greatly
by Theodore Roosevelt
It is not the critic who counts;
not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles,
or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;
who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again,
because there is no effort
error and shortcoming;
but who does actually strive to do the deeds;
who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions;
who spends himself in a worthy cause;
who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,
and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly,
so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls
who neither know victory nor defeat.
Dare to do right! dare to be true!
You have a work that no other can do,
Do it so bravely, so kindly, so well,
Angels will hasten the story to tell.
Dare to do right! dare to be true!
Other men's failures can never save you;
Stand by your conscience, your honor, your faith;
Stand like a hero, and battle till death.
Dare to do right! dare to be true!
God, who created you, cares for you too;
Treasures the tears that his striving ones shed,
Counts and protects every hair of your head.
Dare to do right! dare to be true!
Keep the great judgment-seat always in view;
Look at your work as you'll look at it then -
Scanned by Jehovah, and angels, and men.
Dare to do right! dare to be true!
Cannot Omnipotence carry you through?
City, and mansion, and throne all in sight -
Can you not dare to be true and do right?
Dare to do right! dare to be true!
Prayerfully, lovingly, firmly pursue
The path by apostles and martyrs once trod.
The path of the just to the city of God.
If you never take a chance
You may never get to dance.
Life is full of ups and downs
Bringing smiles and some tears.
But if you always play it safe
You may find out too late
That life is meant to be
Lived each day happily.
You don't want to wonder "what if"
An opportunity you did miss
So take a chance
In order to advance
And you will find
You will not be left behind.
Playing it safe does not always pay
You may regret it when you're gray!
Share these poems with others to encourage and inspire them to be
the best that they can be. And remember sometimes we need to dare, to take a risk
in order to achieve our goals.