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The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
Napoleon Bonaparte
If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.
Julia Sorel (Rosalyn Drexler), See How She Runs, 1978
Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise.
Author Unknown
Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
Samuel Johnson
This nation was built by men who took risks - pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, business men who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action.
Brooks Atkinson
The more chance there is of stubbing your toe, the more chance you have of stepping into success.
Author Unknown
The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of the Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life.
Robert MacIver
Of all the people I have ever known, those who have pursued their dreams and failed have lived a much more fulfilling life than those who have put their dreams on a shelf for fear of failure.
Author Unknown
Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.
Samuel Johnson, Rasselas, 1759
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Seneca
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
Robert H. Schuller
You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
George Herbert
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic.
Author Unknown
If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
Dare to be naive.
Buckminster Fuller
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves. André Gide
Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.
Vauvenargues
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
André Gide
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
James Bryant Conant
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
James Thurber
We fail more often by timidity than by over-daring.
David Grayson
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury
