John Muir Quotes

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

Life has to be dangerous.

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

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

Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight.

Great things are won by great dangers.

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.

Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to unfasten your belt and look for a fight.

If you're going to go out doing something, you might as well be fighting for your country or fighting for your life.

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

Because life constantly poses challenges, living demands courage

Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more admirable than the mole that lives in a dark tunnel.

Patience is not learned in safety.

Life is all about toiling and labor. But obviously I get great joy in confronting challenge and taking risk.

The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.

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

Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.

Adventure ... is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit.

No noble thing can be done without risks.

To be able to live and train in Iraq under these circumstances you need to be brave.

Boss, life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and look for trouble.

I don't care who you are, life has challenges.

When you're scared, when you're hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you're going to see what you're really made of.

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