Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes

Great things are won by great dangers.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

Life has to be dangerous.

Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.

A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.

Living is risking.

Unless you enter the tiger's lair, you cannot get hold of the tiger's cub's.

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

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

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

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

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

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

To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory.

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

Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

Life is a risk.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.

The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire - the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain.

out of the greatest dangers, communities and individuals acquire the greatest glory.

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