The best Quotes by William Shedd

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

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

Anything is possible if you got enough nerve.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Lord Beckett: "You're mad!"
Jack Sparrow: "Well thats good, cause if I wasn't, this'd probably never work."

All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them.

It ain't about how hard you hit, it's about how you can get hit and keep moving forward.

Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

"Me?", said Hermione, "Books and cleverness. There are more important things: friendship and bravery."

Your heart is free. Have the courage to follow it.

Well you can't never let anything happen to him. Then nothing would ever happen to him!

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

The guy who wants too much risks losing absolutely everything. Of course, the guy who wants too little from life might not get anything at all.

Only those who will risk going too far, can possibly find out how far one can go.

What's life without a little risk?

In a world that's changing so quickly, you're guaranteed to fail if you don't take any risks.

Avoiding risk is not much of a goal... whether you crawl into a hole or walk a high wire, nobody gets out of here alive. We cannot grow without challenge.

There's a time for daring and there's a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for.

To live is to risk it all. Otherwise you're just an inert chunk of randomly assembled molecules drifting wherever the universe blows you.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging. There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells.

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality, nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit.

The cautious are wary of their enemies.
The wise are also wary of their friends.

Slow and steady may not always win the race, but at least it doesn't end up splattered on the walls.

They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

There is always an opportunity for safety after danger passes.

Do we want to be safe? Or free? The choice is ours.

If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

Tyrion: "If the ship goes down, I'll go with it."
Varys: "That is good to hear. Though I'm sure many captains say the same while their ship is afloat."

Captains always favor the ship over the crew.

Jules Verne once wrote, "Put two ships in the open sea without wind or tide, it will come together." That’s how my parents met. Like two ships destined for each other.

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

When your ship's taking on water, you don't jump. You grab a bucket.

Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

Edith Crawley: "[About the Titanic] I thought it was supposed to be unsinkable."
Robert Crawley: "Every mountain is unclimbable until someone climbs it; so every ship is unsinkable until it sinks."

Will Turner: "We're going to steal a ship? That ship?"
Jack Sparrow: "Commandeer. We're going to commandeer that ship. Nautical term."

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.

What do you call an Asian Dwayne Johnson?
The Wok.

I'm paranoid. On my stationary bike, I have a rear view mirror.

When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life.

I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.