Quotes · Skopia

56 quotes

1881

★ 7.3

Essay

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays: First Series (Emerson) · 1841

★ 7.2

Autobiography and memoir

I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

Walden · 1854

★ 7.1

Essay

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays: First Series (Emerson) · 1841

★ 7.1

Play · Tragic play

You have deeply ventured; But all must do so who would greatly win.

Lord Byron

1821

★ 7.1

Poem

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Alexander Pope

An Essay on Criticism · 1711

★ 7.0

Film · Sports (film) · Drama (film) · Sports · Drama

If you build it, he will come.

Shoeless Joe Jackson

Field of Dreams · 1989

★ 7.0

Play · Tragicomedy

To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory.

Pierre Corneille

Le Cid · 1636

★ 6.9

Autobiography and memoir

There are no small steps in great affairs.

Jean-Francois Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz

1717

★ 6.9

Song · Film · Musical (film) · Drama (film) · Musical · Drama

Climb every mountain, Ford every stream, Follow every rainbow, 'Til you find your dream.

Sister Margaretta

The Sound of Music · 1965

★ 6.9

Speech · Commencement address

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Steve Jobs

2005

★ 6.9

Film · Coming of age (film) · Sports (film) · Coming of age · Sports

Remember kid, there's heroes and there's legends. Heroes get remembered but legends never die. Follow your heart, kid, and you'll never go wrong.

The Babe

The Sandlot · 1993

★ 6.9

Novel

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.

Louise Erdrich

The Painted Drum · 2005

★ 6.8

100 percent of the shots you don't take don't go in the net.

Wayne Gretzky

1983

★ 6.1

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

John A. Shedd

Salt from My Attic · 1928

★ 6.0

Letter

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.

John Paul Jones

1778

★ 5.2

Almanac

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

Benjamin Franklin

1751

★ 4.7

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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