Courageous Endeavors Quotes

Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not to suffer.

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

The goal is to avoid mediocrity by being prepared to try something and either failing miserably or triumphing grandly.

Failure is a badge of honor. It means you risked failure. And if you don’t risk failure, you’re never going to do anything that’s different from what you’ve already done or what somebody else has done.

At Casablanca we did 'Midnight Express,' 'Flashdance,' and 'The Deep.' My willingness for risk has always been my strength.

It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.

I've done smarter things in my life. Once, for example, I threw myself out of a moving car in order to take on a truckload of lycanthropes singlehandedly." ~Harry Dresden

We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to do, if, as we hope and believe, we have the wisdom, the strength, and the courage and the virtue to do them. But we must face facts as they are. We must neither surrender ourselves to a foolish optimism, nor succumb to a timid and ignoble pessimism.

What's worth doing even if you fail?

Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.

I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more, is none

Scared is the price brave people pay to enjoy lives that make history.

Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past.

Do what you're afraid to do.

The great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past.

Oh, sir, the loftiest hopes on earth Draw lots with meaner hopes: heroic breasts, Breathing bad air, run risk of pestilence; Or, lacking lime-juice when they cross the Line, May languish with the scurvy.

Do that which you dread and cherish those victories with pride.

For I had rather die in the adventure ot noble achievements, then live in obscure and sluggish security.

Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin.

I am proud to be part of a species where a subset of its members willingly put their lives at risk to push the boundaries of our existence.

If you must fail ... fail spectacularly!

The main trouble with this civilized world isn't that we adventure too much, but that we fail to adventure enough.

You must make bold experiments in life!

The most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage.

Slowly I would get to pen and paper, Make my poems for others unseen and unborn. In the day I would be reminded of those men and women, Brave, setting up signals across vast distances, considering a nameless way of living, of almost unimagined values.