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To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
Søren Kierkegaard1813–1855
If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jongborn 1942Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)
You don’t know what you can get away with until you try.
Colin Powell1937–2021
A man who never made a mistake never made anything.
DGDavid Gemmell1948–2006
Why not go out on a limb? That’s where the fruit is.
Will Rogers1879–1935
When in doubt, do it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.1841–1935
Risk is what separates the good part of life from the tedium.
JZJohn Foley (Johnny Zero)
In the long run, you only hit what you aim at.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862
In crises the most daring course is often safest.
Henry Kissinger1923–2023
Nothing noble is done without risk.
André Gide1869–1951
No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
Isaac Newton1643–1727
It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new one.
Niccolò Machiavelli1469–1527
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
Marcel Proust1871–1922
When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
D. H. Lawrence1885–1930
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus55–120Annals (117), Book XV, 50, in his account of Subrius Flavus’ passing thought of assassinating Nero while the emperor sang on stage.