Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Life is a daring adventure or nothing.

If many of our young people have lost the excitement of the early settlers, who had a country to explore and develop, it is because no one remembers to tell them that the world has never been so challenging, so exciting... Perhaps the older generation is often to blame with its cautious warning: “Take a job that will give you security, not adventure.” But I say to the young: “Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, and imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of a competence.

Dig into life with wild roving abandon, opening your mind to the delicious possibilities that perplex the mind, entice the heart, and excite the spirit.

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?

I love playing different characters and things that are challenging. I'm not interested in safety at all. That's what makes me get up in the morning.

I've always been spontaneous and outgoing... I've tried lots of things so I've got some good life experiences, which is great 'cause it means I've got lots of material to work with as an actor.

Some people see acting as a kind of stroll on the beach, and some people see it as a kind of skydive. And I've had lots of strolls on the beach in my life, so I'd like to do a skydive.

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

I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures.

I love adventures.

Any creative process is about being in a territory which isn't secure, isn't necessarily familiar, and isn't convenient in any sort of way. And that's the excitement of it.

I've never played a hero before so I jumped at the chance.

I like adventure.

If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it?

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

I like to experiment, and my life has been eventful.

Adventure is worthwhile.

That is why it's so fun to make movies... you get to do lots of things you would never do in your normal life.

I've spent half my life on planes. I have a lot of love for New Zealand, though. That is where the really arty, whimsical side of the family resided - in Hobbitland.

Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.