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A man sits as many risks as he runs. --Henry David Thoreau
Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can - and surely will at times - fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk. --Dr. Joyce Brothers
Chance favors those in motion. --James H. Austin
Choose to chance the rapids, dare to dance the tide. -Garth Brooks
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. --William Lloyd George
Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other. --Metastasio
Everything is sweetened by risk. --Alexander Smith
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. --Theodore Roosevelt
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. --Ray Bradbury
"Is this a game of chance?"
"Not the way I play it, no."
--W.C. Fields
Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius. --Friedrich Nietzsche
Once is chance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action.
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
Part of the reason confident men tend to get what they want is that they're not afraid to ask for it, even if they risk being turned down.
Remember: You have nothing to lose but yourself.
Risk! Risk anything!... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth. --Katherine Mansfield
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
The biggest chance you can take is not taking a chance at all. --Glen Sather
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all. --Jawaharlal Nehru
The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith. --George E. Woodberry
There are some things in life that you are not meant to be. Don't waste your time and tears trying to be them. Reach for the things you are meant to be, and you will reach your destiny. --Sarah Normile
To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out for another is to risk involvement.
To express feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas, your dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To hope is to risk despair.
To try is to risk failure.
But risks must be taken because the greastest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
The person who asks nothing, does nothing, has nothing and is nothing.
They may avoid suffering and sorrow, but they cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, live.
Chained by their attitudes, they are a slave, they have forfeited their freedom.
Only a person who risks is free.
Was it then that she learned that beauty and danger walk hand in hand and cannot be separated? For anyone who loves their life will lose it, but anyone who is willing to throw it away will gain and keep it. Nothing will come of nothing. You have to go out and risk it all. She had refused to do so; she had wanted to stay in the place of safety which is death. --Sara Maitland, "Home Truths"
We have to be continually jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down. --Kurt Vonnegut
