Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not to suffer.
The American is a new man, who acts upon new principles; he must therefore entertain new ideas, and form new opinions.
J. Hector St. John
When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.
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)
Great people do things before they’re ready. They do things before they know they can do it.
Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
God himself favors the brave.
We not only went after some sacred cows, we went after the whole herd.
Big Dreams start with small unreasonable acts
Risk isn't a word in my vocabulary. It's my very existence.
If you don't risk doing something foolish, you'll never do anything special.
Matilda said, "Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable.
I like to be adventurous.
I suppose that's the European way, dangerous and hairy.
We grow fearless when we do the things we fear.
I like to fly close to the edge. I like to play with fire.
You want to play as much as possible, but I am not the type of character to go bursting walls down.
But heroes, at times, had to be fools.
David Bentley has got balls - and plenty of them.
All his life he [the American] jumps into the train after it has started and jumps out before it has stopped; and he never once gets left behind, or breaks a leg.
I've always enjoyed doing challenging things and also challenging common wisdom.
Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have the pleasure of being as heroic as the occasion demanded.
Believe that if you make courageous choices, and bet on yourself, then you will have an impact.
All I can say is that it's amazing what you can accomplish when you're young and foolish.
For John Wilkes Booth, sweeping, grand gestures were a way of life. It was how he navigated his way through this world. The bigger and bolder, the better.
