Inspirations

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

- Alan Alda

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

- Muhammad Ali

If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

- Woody Allen

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

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

- Mary Kay Ash

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

- Roy Ash

All serious daring starts from within.

- Joan Baez

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down

- Ray Bradbury

You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.

- Les Brown

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

- James E Burke

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure thing boat never gets far from shore.

- Dale Carnegie

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose, only then will you learn the game.

- Winston Churchill

Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

- Robert Collier

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

- James B Conant

Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win.

- Mike Conner

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

- Calvin Coolidge

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

- Pierre Corneille

In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

- Georges Danton

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

- Madame Doroth� Deluzy

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were--to the very last minute--a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

- Dwight D Eisenhower

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.

- T S Eliot

There's no reward in life without risk.

- Barry J Farber

Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.

- Milton Friedman

Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

- Robert Frost

As the band got more successful, it was increasingly difficult to get people to take a risk with something that might jeopardize their livelihood. [On Genesis]

- Peter Gabriel

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

- John W Gardner

Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.

- Lou Gerstner

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

- J Paul Getty

You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

- Wayne Gretzky

It is true that when we take chances, we stand to lose. But it is also true that we will never win anything if we never even enter the game. Lucky people are aware of the possibility of losing, and indeed they may lose often. But since the chances they take are small, the losses tend to be small. By being willing to accept small losses, they put themselves in position to make large gains.

- Max Gunther

Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.

- John Havlicek

If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.

- Shirley Hufstedler

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

- William James

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

- Jimmy Johnson

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

- Erica Jong

You've got to keep fighting, you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive

- Elia Kazan

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

- Helen Keller

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

- Helen Keller

There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

- John F Kennedy

It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

- Marilyn Moats Kennedy

Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets. The buck not only stops at their desks, it starts there too.

- Victor Kiam

During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.

- Soren Kierkegaard

To win you have to risk loss.

- Jean Claude Killy

Be bold. If you are going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.

- Billie Jean King

If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.

- Arthur Koestler

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

- Ray Kroc

What kind of man would live where there is no daring? I don't believe in taking foolish chances but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all.

- Charles A Lindbergh

People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

- Walter Lippmann

Run for daylight.

- Vince Lombardi

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act.

- Maxwell Maltz

Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.

- Cadet Maxim

To achieve anything in this game, you must be prepared to dabbled on the boundary of disaster.

- Stirling Moss

Who dares wins.

- Motto of the British Special Air Service

Dare to be wise.

- Motto

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

- Jawaharlal Nehru

If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.

- Henry Cardinal Newman

Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?

- Alex Noble

Educated risks are the key to success.

- William Olsten

Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.

- Ovid

Daring is not safe against daring men.

- Ovid

Take calculated risks. This is quite different from being rash.

- George S Patton

How does one become a butterfly?, she asked pensively. You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.'

- Trina Paulus

There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.

- Pilpay

Where there is much to risk, there is much to consider.

- Platen

You can't steal second base with your foot on first.

- American Proverb

Risk. If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it.

- Persian Proverb

Others attempt to live cautiously in the safety of established patterns. They do not feel fulfilled, yet they have found a formula not of success (whatever that is), but of avoiding failure. This is the living death, when security becomes the overwhelming consideration.

- Randy Read

All of life is a risk, in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

- Jim Rohn

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

- Jim Rohn

We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.

- Jim Rohn

Far better is it 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 gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

- Theodore Roosevelt

It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.

- Theodore Roosevelt

You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention, and sometime, maybe somebody, will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.

- David Lee Roth

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

- Jean Jacques Rousseau

If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.

- Alberto Salazar

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

- May Sarton

To save all we must risk all.

- Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

People who take risks are the people you'll lose against.

- John Sculley

When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

- Barbara Sher

Everything is sweetened by risk.

- Alexander Smith

Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.

- Tobias G Smollett

If you are never scared, embarrassed, or hurt, it means you never take chances.

- Julia Soul

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.

- Herbert Spencer

The irony is this, If you don't go in, you can't find out.

- Richard Stine

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

- Jonathan Swift

Audacity augments courage, hesitation, fear.

- Publilius Syrus

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

- William M Thackeray

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

- Henry David Thoreau

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

- Alvin Toffler

He who stays in the valley will never see over the hill.

- Source Unknown

Remember the turtle. He never makes any progress till he sticks his neck out.

- Source Unknown

Most successful people are people who take risks, calculated risks, but nevertheless, risks.

- Source Unknown

If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.

- Source Unknown

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

- Source Unknown

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

- Source Unknown

If you want to launch big ships you have to go where the water is deep.

- Source Unknown

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

- Marquis De Vauvenargues

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

- Denis Waitley

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

- Thomas J Watson

If you want to stand out, don't be different, be outstanding.

- Meredith West

Buyers are graded not only on their successes, but also on their failures. Too many hits means the buyer isn't taking enough chances.

- Leslie Wexner

Progress always involves risk, you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

- Frederick Wilcox

You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

- Flip Wilson

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

- Oprah Winfrey

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

- George E Woodberry

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Get Inspired for Virtue 2: Courage and Emotional Strengths

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

All serious daring starts from within.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down

You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure thing boat never gets far from shore.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose, only then will you learn the game.

Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win.

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were--to the very last minute--a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.

There's no reward in life without risk.

Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.

Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

As the band got more successful, it was increasingly difficult to get people to take a risk with something that might jeopardize their livelihood. [On Genesis]

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.

If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

You've got to keep fighting, you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.

To win you have to risk loss.

Be bold. If you are going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.

If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

What kind of man would live where there is no daring? I don't believe in taking foolish chances but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all.

People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

Run for daylight.

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act.

Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.

To achieve anything in this game, you must be prepared to dabbled on the boundary of disaster.

Who dares wins.

Dare to be wise.

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.

Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?

Educated risks are the key to success.

Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Take calculated risks. This is quite different from being rash.

How does one become a butterfly?, she asked pensively. You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.'

There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.

Where there is much to risk, there is much to consider.

You can't steal second base with your foot on first.

Risk. If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it.

Others attempt to live cautiously in the safety of established patterns. They do not feel fulfilled, yet they have found a formula not of success (whatever that is), but of avoiding failure. This is the living death, when security becomes the overwhelming consideration.

All of life is a risk, in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.

Far better is it 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 gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.

You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention, and sometime, maybe somebody, will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

To save all we must risk all.

People who take risks are the people you'll lose against.

When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

Everything is sweetened by risk.