James Cameron Quotes

I am sufficiently wary of dangerous situations, but I'm not scared of having a go.

There's no such thing as a cautious creative.

I'm brave to say that I won't take this sort of risk.

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Skateboarding teaches you how to take a fall properly. If you try to kickflip down some stairs, it might take you thirty tries - and you just learn how to take a tumble out of it without getting hurt.

The only safe thing is to take a chance.

I don't think I ever take huge risks, though I'm not scared of doing so.

Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

To seek trouble - this is not courage, this is madness. Courage is the willingness of man to sensibly face the troubles he cannot avoid.

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

When you have been persistent for as long as I have been, you have to exercise a certain amount of caution, but I want to do everything.

I always believe that when you're not courageous, you become cunning.

Sometimes you have to shield, and sometimes you have to press.

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

I'll walk the plank and I'll jump with a smile, cause if I'm gonna go down I'm gonna do it with style.

With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents.

You don't have to be brilliant at everything. You just have to have the courage to put yourself in the line of fire.

The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure)

Courage and confidence are what decision making is all about.

Failure is an option, fear is not.

There's a buzz to failing and not dying.

If you are ignorant enough, you can walk like a cat on the slippery roof-ridge of danger.

Courage doesn't know what's around the corner, but goes around it anyway.

The spiritual warrior hides from nothing. We jump into the fire, we dive into the ocean. We become the sea.

I really feel like if you can get past your fear, if you can say, "Uh-uh, I'm afraid to do that and I'm going to do it anyhow," that that's really the way to have a satisfying life moving forward. I think I had that kind of fearlessness even as a young person. It wasn't tempered by experience or wisdom, but it took me a long way.