Henry Van Dyke Quotes

If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.

I am convinced that only when a man is prepared to die is he also prepared to live.

After you're dead [...] it's not gonna matter if you have a few scars. It will matter if you didn't live.

No one gets out of the game of life alive. You either die in the bleachers, or on the field. So, you might as well play out on the field, and go for it.

You can only die once, so do not die a thousand times worrying about it.

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

I've been doing extremely dangerous activities for a long time, but I've been lucky enough to have survived so far. However, sooner or later we all die... and, if that's the case, I want to die doing what I love to do the most. That's how I view death.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.

When I nearly died it made me think – this can happen again any second. I better hurry and do what I want. I started to live like I never lived before. When the fear of death is gone, then nothing can bother you and nobody can stop you.

Not only do the brave get killed, but the brave have a better chance of it.

Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.

Die without me if you will. Live for me if you dare.

Better to die than to live in fear.

Life without the courage to die is slavery.

Don't 'take care', take a risk!

Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring? And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure? Is there a better way to die?

All is possible for those who dare to die!

The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly.

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

I'm of the mind that life is a risk, every time you leave your house it's a risk, and I see no reason to go through life with my hands tied behind my back for any reason. I'd be foolish to let something stop me from doing what I love to do.