Frederick Douglass Quotes

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

The art of climbing is the art of survival. The best climber is the man or woman going in the most crazy places but surviving.

Live win, dare fail.

Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there.

It is true that I must run a great risk; no gallant action was ever accomplished without danger.

Have I not walked without an upward look Of caution under stars that very well Might not have missed me when they shot and fell? It was a risk I had to take-and took.

Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison.

She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.

...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.

The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure), a margin whose width and length may be determined by unknown factors but whose navigation is determined by the measure of the adventurer's nerve and wits. It is exhilarating to live by one's nerves or toward the summit of one's wits.

I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.

But the love of adventure was in father's blood.

I'm not nearly as outrageously brave as many of my rascals that I write. But I think the rascal spirit must reside in me somewhere.

Take a walk on the wild side.

Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.

There's something incredibly primal about facing something treacherous but doing it anyway.

Fate loves the fearless.

I think I'm pretty fearless. I like to try things at least once, things that I never thought that I would try.

Fortune befriends the bold.

I don't think there's any story worth dying for, but I do think there are stories worth taking risks for.

I have always been more comfortable with daredevil acts than with the everyday nuances of life. Let me jump out of a plane, speak in front of a roomful of strangers, even trek across Siberia.

Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Unquestionably, it was going to be highly dangerous. Yet I felt it was quite natural to jump at the task. After all, if you don't like action and excitement, you don't go into police work. And, what the hell, I figured, nobody lives forever!

Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.