Courageous Endeavor Quotes

To defy the laws of tradition is a crusade only of the brave.

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful

It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on the floor.

It's a dangerous business, going out your door.

I'm not sure Americans are hesitant to do this again - to fight another war, because it looked to them like a courageous and terrific endeavor.

I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.

An examin'd enterprize goes on boldly.

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening the door to your own life is, in the end, more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe.

Compared to the coward that never made the attempt, he is a hero.

Arise, go forth, and conquer as of old.

A sentence starts out like a lone traveler heading into a blizzard at midnight, tilting into the wind, one arm shielding his face, the tails of his thin coat flapping behind him.

The good were worthy of note because they battled and that battle was a great story, whereas the evil were evil because of moral laziness, or weakness, and that was ultimately a dull and uninteresting affair.

Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the personality. If we oppose it, we are trying to suppress what is best in man - his daring and his aspirations. And should we succeed, we should only have stood in the way of that invaluable experience which might have given a meaning to life.

Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell.

Let the attempt be made, at whatever risk.

If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at the hazard of their lives and at the risk of all they hold dear, then bolder and stronger peoples will pass us by, and will win for themselves the domination of the world.

A Dauntless Ferris wheel wouldn’t have cars. You would just hang on tight with your hands, and good luck to you.