I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
O proudly name their names who bravely sail: To seek brave lost in Arctic snows and seas!
Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.
An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
A boat is always safe in the harbor, but that's not what boats are built for.
As a kid, when I got to the edge of a cliff I wanted to jump off. I didn't want to kill myself. I wanted to fly.
Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.
The goal is to avoid mediocrity by being prepared to try something and either failing miserably or triumphing grandly.
The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.
When I went into film, it never occurred to me that I wouldn't be able to do whatever I wanted to do. Maybe that was a good thing in the beginning. I had blinders on, and I charged forward.
One of the things with the second record, a word I held close to my chest was 'brave.' To take chances to go outside the box and explore. To continue to toss off any expectation that our fans or anyone else might have of us, to just tap into who I am as a writer and artist and really just operate within that freedom of creation.
Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures.
I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread.
America the brave Still fears what we don't know
The future awaits those with the courage to create it.
I shall never fear or avoid things of which I do not know.
You're young, be adventurous, don't give up, and then your dream will come true.
Being twenty-something is all about taking it in: eating it, drinking it, and spitting out the seeds later. It's about being fearless, and stupid, and dangerous, and unfocused, and abandoned. It's about being in it, not on top of it
Courage is the enabling virtue for any philosopher - for any human being, I think, in the end. Courage to think, courage to love, courage to hope.
The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
...the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation's destiny, by men willing to adventure, to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.
Curiosity might have killed the cat, but little girls usually fared much better.
If you're not having doubt, you're not pushing the boundaries far enough.
