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 Andrew Adams
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.
Leo F. Buscaglia
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Katherine Mansfield
If you`re not making mistakes, you`re not taking risks, and that means you`re not going anywhere. The key is to make mistakes faster than the competition, so you have more changes to learn and win.
John W. Holt, Jr.
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.
Andre Malraux
Creative people who can`t help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.
R.D. Laing
Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won`t suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But when the person looks back-she will hear her heart
Paulo Coelho
Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the
Winston Churchill