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When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
D. H. Lawrence1885–1930
It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent.
Niccolò Machiavelli1469–1527
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
I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
Herman Melville1819–1891Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter IIn context
The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
Henry Miller1891–1980The Rosy Crucifixion I: Sexus (1949), Ch. 14, p. 339
Ever notice that ‘what the hell’ is always the right decision?
Marilyn Monroe1926–1962
- Decisions
No right way is easy in this rough world. We must risk our lives to save them.
John Muir1838–1914Stickeen (1909), Terry Gifford, LLO, page 693
If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds … I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.
Napoleon1769–1821Statement at the beginning of the 1813 campaign, as quoted in The Mind of Napoleon (1955) by J. Christopher Herold, p. 45
- War & Peace
No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
Isaac Newton1643–1727
Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.
George S. Patton1885–1945
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
George S. Patton1885–1945
You don’t know what you can get away with until you try.
Colin Powell1937–2021
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
Marcel Proust1871–1922
Why not go out on a limb? That’s where the fruit is.
Will Rogers1879–1935
A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Authority and the Individual (1949)