Rick Riordan Quotes

Life has to be dangerous.

Living is risking.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.

Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers.

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

Withough danger you cannot go beyond danger.

This world is not for cowards.

Human life implies adventure, and there is no adventure without struggles and dangers.

They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger.

Being brave is not as easy as it looks.

Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.

Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!

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

No noble thing can be done without risks.

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

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

I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years.

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

We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face.

There's action only if there is danger.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

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.