Clarissa Pinkola Estes Quotes

A boat is always safe in the harbor, but that's not what boats are built for.

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

Safe is good for sidewalks and swimming pools, but life requires risk if we are to get anywhere.

We must always take risks. That is our destiny.

My Antarctic expedition is just about doable, just feasible and that's what is exciting to me. If I knew it was possible, if I knew I could do it without too much bother, I wouldn't be interested.

If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow any more.

Unless you enter the tiger's lair, you cannot get hold of the tiger's cub's.

Do you think the people who were trying to reach to the Everest were not full of doubts? For a hundred years, how many people tried and how many people lost their lives? Do you know how many people never came back? But, still, people come from all over the world, risking, knowing they may never return. For them it is worth it - because in the very risk something is born inside of them: the center. It is born only in the risk. That's the beauty of risk, the gift of risk.

A boat is safe in the harbor. But this is not the purpose of a boat.

Life is a daring adventure or nothing.

Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!

The minute you know you're on safe ground, you're dead.

Be fearless. Have the courage to take risks. Go where there are no guarantees.

Choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the tide.

You can't call it an adventure unless it's tinged with danger. The greatest danger in life, though, is not taking the adventure at all. To have the objective of a life of ease is death. I think we've all got to go after our own Everest.

It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.

If your work isn't exciting, doesn't stir the emotions, where's the challenge? Where's the progress if you always play it safe?

They will take a role that scares them over a role that doesn't. That's another thing I like about actors.

Sure, give me an adventure and I'll ride it.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

I've taken challenges with the big risk that it can all go wrong. But that's what I like and I'd rather do that than be safe all the time.

I like adventure.

Traveling anywhere in the world involves some risk. You could always opt to spend your life cowering under your bed.

Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.