“If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged”
Virginia Woolf
“Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?”
Frank Moore Colby
“The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, ''Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home.'' And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wish”
Thornton Wilder
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
Andre Gide
“Necessity is the mother of "taking chances"”
Mark Twain
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
T.S. Eliot
“Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.”
Andre Malraux