Quotes · Skopia

56 quotes

And I honor the man who is willing to sink Half his present repute for the freedom to think, And, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak.

James Russell Lowell

A Fable of Critics · 1848

★ 1.8

Interview

You have to take chances for peace, just as you must take chances in war... The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

John Foster Dulles

1956

★ 1.8

Interview

An essential element of any art is risk. If you don't take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn't been seen before?

Francis Ford Coppola

2011

★ 1.8

Play · Tragedy (play)

And he who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an Excellence.

John Dryden

1669

★ 1.9

Letter

I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.

Amelia Earhart

1937

★ 1.9

Interview · Magazine

If everything is under control, you're not going fast enough.

Mario Andretti

2009

★ 1.9

Novel · Magazine

Realize your youth while you have it... Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray · 1890

★ 2.0

Film · Biography (film) · Crime (film) · Biography · Crime

Risk is what keeps us young, isn't it, darling?

Aunt Emma

The Wolf of Wall Street · 2013

★ 2.0

Creativity takes courage.

Henri Matisse

★ 2.0

Historical literature

Great successes are not won save by great risks.

Herodotus

Histories · 430 BC

★ 2.2

Poem

Look with favor upon a bold beginning.

Virgil

Georgics · 29 BC

★ 2.2

Film · Animation (film) · Fantasy (film) · Animation · Fantasy

Yeah, it's only fun if you get a scar out of it.

Astrid

How to Train Your Dragon · 2010

★ 2.2

Play · Comedy (play)

Our doubts are traitors And makes us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt.

William Shakespeare

Measure for Measure · 1616

★ 2.3

Romantic comedy (film) · Comedy drama (film) · Romantic comedy · Comedy drama

I have learned how to live, how to be in the world and of the world, and not just to stand aside and watch. And I will never, never again run away from life. Or from love, either.

Sabrina Fairchild

Sabrina · 1954

★ 2.9

Personal journal

Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in a bed.

Charles Lindbergh

1938

★ 3.5

Novel · Children's literature

I will not pretend I wasn't petrified. I was. But mixed in with the awful fear was a glorious feeling of excitement. Most of the really exciting things we do in our lives scare us to death. They wouldn't be exciting if they didn't.

Roald Dahl

Danny, the Champion of the World · 1975

★ 3.5

Novel

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Andre Gide

The Counterfeiters · 1925

★ 3.5

Essay

Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

Hunter S. Thompson

Security · 1951

★ 3.5

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or "get rich" in business by being a conformist.

J. Paul Getty

1965

★ 3.5

Poem

Listen to the MUSTN’TS, child, Listen to the DON’TS Listen to the SHOULDN’TS The IMPOSSIBLES, the WONT’S Listen to the NEVER HAVES Then listen close to me- Anything can happen, child, ANYTHING can be.

Shel Silverstein

Listen to the Mustn'ts · 1974

★ 3.5

Speech

Do not worry about failure. Failure is a badge of honor. It means you risked failure.

Charlie Kaufman

2011

★ 3.5

Speech · Political speech

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming.

Theodore Roosevelt

1910

★ 3.6

Film · Drama (film) · Drama

I don't throw darts at a board. I bet on sure things. Read Sun-tzu, The Art of War. Every battle is won before it is ever fought.

Gordon Gekko

Wall Street · 1987

★ 3.6

Film · Psychological drama (film) · Drama (film) · Psychological drama · Drama

You don't know about real loss 'cause that only occurs when you love something more than you love yourself. I doubt you've ever dared to love anybody that much.

Sean

Good Will Hunting · 1997

★ 3.6

Film · Crime comedy (film) · Crime comedy

When you dance with the devil, you wait for the song to stop.

Barry The Baptist

Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels · 1998

★ 3.6

Speech · Commencement address

You can't connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something…because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well worn path and that will make all the difference.

Steve Jobs

2005

★ 3.6

Don't live the same year 75 times and call it a life.

Robin Sharma

2014

★ 3.6

Speech · Political speech · Historical literature

But the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

Pericles

Thucydides, Funeral Oration, History of the Peloponnesian War · 430 BC

★ 3.7

Poem

Even if strength fail, boldness at least will Deserve praise: in great endeavors even to have Had the will is enough.

Propertius

15 BC

★ 3.7

Poem

A short life in the saddle, Lord! Not long life by the fire.

Louise Imogen Guiney

1893

★ 3.7

Speech

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

1899

★ 3.7

Film · Action (film) · Crime (film) · Action · Crime

If you want the ultimate, you've got to be willing to pay the ultimate price. It's not tragic to die doing what you love.

Bodhi

Point Break · 1991

★ 3.7

Film · Science fiction (film) · Action (film) · Science fiction · Action

Do you want to take a leap of faith or become an old man filled with regret waiting to die alone?

Saito

Inception · 2010

★ 3.7

Film · Romantic comedy (film) · Comedy drama (film) · Romantic comedy · Comedy drama

You gotta pay attention to the signs. When life reaches out a moment like this, it's a sin if you don't reach back. I'm telling you its a sin if you don't reach back! It'll haunt you for the rest of your days like a curse.

Pat Sr.

Silver Linings Playbook · 2012

★ 3.7

Play · Comedy (play)

Fortune assists the brave.

Terence

161 BC

★ 3.8

Religious literature

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Helen Keller

1940

★ 3.8

Film · Science fiction (film) · Action (film) · Science fiction · Action

I can only show you the door, you're the one that has to walk through it.

Morpheus

The Matrix · 1999

★ 3.9

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

Here one must leave behind all hesitation; here every cowardice must meet its death.

Dante Alighieri

Inferno · 1321

★ 4.0

Personal journal

How can you hesitate? Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Katherine Mansfield

1922

★ 4.3

Almanac

Great Estates may venture more; Little Boats must keep near Shore.

Benjamin Franklin

1751

★ 4.7

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