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Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.
Milton Friedman
Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.
Virgil
I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is true that I must run a great risk; no gallant action was ever accomplished without danger.
John Paul Jones
Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
Frederick Wilcox
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
Marcel Proust
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
Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today. Most important, don't listen when the little voice of fear inside you rears its ugly head and says. they all smarter than you out there. They're more talented, they're taller, blonder, prettier, luckier, and they have connections. I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects.
Neil Simon
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
I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
Anais Nin
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
If you want to launch big ships you have to go where the water is deep.
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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.
If a mans gonna eat fried chicken, he's gotta get greasy.
Remember the turtle -- He never makes any progress till he sticks his neck out.
Most successful people are people who take risks--calculated risks--but nevertheless, risks.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.
He who stays in the valley will never see over the hill.
A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out