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A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for.
Sep 17, 2025
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!
Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.
You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.
If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
Do the hardest thing on earth for you. ACT YOURSELF.
Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.
Our lives improve only when we take chances.
Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
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.
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.
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
The biggest risk is not taking any risk.
The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow.
Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
Take a chance! All life is a chance
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.