Ray Stevenson Quotes

Life is always full of dangers and I don't think one should avoid dangers.

I believe great people do things before they are ready.

I went into the world, threw myself into the world, and great things came out of it.

Life gives us choices. You either grab on with both hands and just go for it, or you sit on the sidelines.

Try stuff. I also used to believe that it's better to be smart than lucky because if you're smart you can out-think the competition. I don't believe that anymore-this is not to say that you should strive for a high level of stupidity. My point is that luck is a big part of many successes, so (a) don't get too bummed out when you see a bozo succeed; and (b) luck favors the people who try stuff, not simply think and analyze. As the Chinese say, "One must wait for a long time with your mouth open before a Peking duck flies in your mouth."

Courage multiplies the chances of success by sometimes making opportunities, and always availing itself of them; and in this sense Fortune may be said to favor fools by those who, however prudent in their opinion, are deficient in valor and enterprise.

Nothing adventured, nothing attained.

Passivity is fatal to us.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'

Failure's a marker of success in its own right because you went out and tried something... If you really don't want to fail, go find a comfortable chair and stay there. Just don't go out and do anything.

I'm not one to turn down opportunities.

I believe in following opportunities.

The first quality of courage is the willingness to launch with no guarantees. The second quality of courage is the ability to endure when there is no success in sight.

Live win, dare fail.

You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.

Those who won't take a chance don't have a chance.

Nice guys do not finish last. Last place is for the cowards and those too full of fear to take action.

If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.

... all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act.

Nothing important was ever achieved without someone taking a chance.

The great stories go to those who aren't afraid to live them

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out and meet the bloody thing.

Load the ship and set out. No one knows for certain whether the vessel will sink or reach the harbor. Cautious people say, 'I'll do nothing until I can be sure.' Merchants know better. If you do nothing, you lose. Don't be one of those merchants who wont risk the ocean.

Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the personality. If we oppose it, we are trying to suppress what is best in man - his daring and his aspirations. And should we succeed, we should only have stood in the way of that invaluable experience which might have given a meaning to life.