Life is a risk.
-Diane Von Furstenberg
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If you don't risk anything you risk even more.
-Erica Jong
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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.
-Helmuth von Moltke (1800 - 1891)
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
-Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC), The Histories of Herodotus
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If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.
-Julia Sorel
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It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.
-Philip Adams
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Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
-Walter Anderson
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What you risk reveals what you value.
-Jeanette Winterson
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
-Anais Nin (1903 - 1977)
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Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
Ronald. E. Osborn
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Vision is not enough, it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.
Vaclav Havel
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We cannot swing up on a rope that is attached only to our own belt.
William Ernest Hocking
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We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.
Ruth Ross
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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it is another matter.
Peter F. Drucker
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When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed to two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.
John F. Kennedy
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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela
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The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
Roger Bannister
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The man who does things makes many mistakes, but he never makes the biggest mistake of all - doing nothing.
Benjamin Franklin
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The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop W. C. Magee
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The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
Brian Tracy
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Dale Carnegie
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The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.
Denis Waitley
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The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
Dag Hammarskjold
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Never mistake activity for achievement.
John Wooden
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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
Bruce Barton
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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.
Maxwell Maltz
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One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
Thomas Fuller
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