Andre Malraux Quotes

To Dare is to risk losing your foothold for a moment, Not to Dare is to risk losing yourself.

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

Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.

The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.

I'll take any risk there is.

You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Great things are won by great dangers.

I am ... one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.

Life is full of risks, and often, you have to take them. Just don't be scared of taking one.

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

Courage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.

No matter how much you're going to be criticized or no matter how big of a risk it is, the boldness is the thing that helps you

What is courage? Courage is the willingness to risk failure...There is only one danger I find in life, and that, indeed, is a real one. You may take too many precautions.

Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring? And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure? Is there a better way to die?

Unless you stake your life, life will not be won.

It is only by being bold that you get anywhere. If you are a risk-taker, then the art is to protect the downside.

You have to be afraid for it to count as bravery.

If we must put our head into the lion’s mouth, let us make certain that he chokes upon our flesh!

Courage in danger is half the battle.

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

You know, I'm no different from a fireman. You got to run into a fire no matter how big the blaze is.

To save all we must risk all.

Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.