Hayao Miyazaki Quotes

The two great risks are risking too much but also risking too little. That's for each person to decide. For me, not risking anything is worse than death. By far.

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

If I thought I had hurt my chances of winning another major just because I was chasing money around, I'd wind up kicking myself.

I use myself as a measuring yardstick, and so if I come up with an idea that really scares me, then I'd like to think that people out there would feel the same way as well.

All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.

But we survived, didn’t we? That makes it an adventure. If you get killed it’s a tragedy.

Not only do the brave get killed, but the brave have a better chance of it.

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being.

Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.

When it comes to betting on yourself... you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.

I've always been like, "Look, you're going to die and it's not going to matter after you die that you got out onstage and bombed."

This was real. And it was me. I had lived that life, and I had died that death. I was staring at the very end of me.

Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.

I am convinced that only when a man is prepared to die is he also prepared to live.

We're all going to die sometime, so you might as well die pushing the odds for something that matters.

Die without me if you will. Live for me if you dare.

You can't be paralyzed by fear of failure or you will never push yourself.

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.

Death means nothing to men like me. It's the event that proves them right.

If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.

To laugh is to risk appearing a fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out to another is to risk involvement. To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self. To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure. But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

In one horrible moment the last piece of the prophecy became clear. So bid him take care, bid him look where he leaps, As life may be death and death life again reaps. He had to leap, and by his death, the others would live. That was it. That was what Sandwich had been trying to say all along, and by now he believed in Sandwich. He put on a final burst of speed, just like the coach taught him in track. He gave everything he had. In the last few steps before the canyon he felt a sharp pain in the back of his leg, and then the ground gave way under his feet. Gregor the Overlander leaped.

Failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. This way, it is about answering to yourself.