It’s funny how a few words in a specific sequence can completely alter your perspective. Here are some quotes that I hope will inspire you to be courageous in pursuit of your wildest desires.

1. “And then there is the most dangerous risk of all – the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself freedom to do it later.” ― Randy Kamisar

2. “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

3. “For what it’s worth… it’s never too late, or in my case too early, to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit. Start whenever you want. You can change or stay the same. There are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you’ve never felt before. I hope you meet people who have a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start over again.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald

4. “A ship is safe in the harbor, but that’s not what ships are built for.” ―Gael Attal

5. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” ― Neale Donald Walsch

6. “Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.” ― Paulo Coelho

7. “Adventure may hurt you, but monotony will kill you.” ― Ghaniya Devi Arassyi

8. “Because in the end, you won’t remember the times you spent in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” ― Jack Kerouac

9. “Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of.” ― Roy T. Bennett

10. “It is never too late to be who you might have been.”
— George Eliot

11. “You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – Christopher Robin

12. “The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.”
— W.M. Lewis

13. “Sometimes the hardest part of the journey is believing you’re worth the trip.” ― Glenn Beck

14. “If your dreams don’t scare you, you’re dreaming too small.” ― Unknown

15. “Letting go is hard, but being free is better.” ― Wilder

16. “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” ― Beverly Sills

17. “Kids are curious, and if you don’t lose that, then everything is an adventure.”
― Diane Greene

 18. “Life movies pretty fast, if you don’t stop and look around every once in a while, you could miss it.”
— Ferris Bueller

19. “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” ― Oliver Wendell Holmes

20. “Don’t be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try.” ―Michael Jordan

21. “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.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien

22. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide

23. “Make everything an adventure. Otherwise, it will suck.”  
― Nita Morgan

24. “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.” ― Anthony Bourdain

25. “Perhaps wisdom. . . is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.” ― Anthony Bourdain

26. “The way I see it if you want the rainbow you have to put up with the rain.” ― Dolly Parton

27. “Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.” — Ashton Kutcher

28. “Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” — Charles Swindoll

29. “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.  When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.  I wrote down ‘happy’.  They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” ― John Lennon

30. “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” ― Walt Disney

I hope some of these sparked courage, inspiration and a fire under your butt to get out there and do it! Let me know which quotes speak to you or if you have any other quotes you live by.