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He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Muhammad Ali1942–2016
If the primary aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
Thomas Aquinas1225–1274
Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury1920–2012Brown Daily Herald (24 March 1995)
- Courage
“Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Dale Carnegie1888–1955From Dale Carnegie’s Scrapbook, ed. Dorothy Carnegie, as cited in Words of Wisdom, William Safire & Leonard Safir, Simon and Schuster (reprint, 1990), p. 87
Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about.
Ben Carsonborn 1951Take The Risk (2008), p. 58
- Advice
With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents.
Carl von Clausewitz1780–1831On War (1832), Book 1, Ch. 1
- Courage
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
William Congreve1670–1729Love for Love (1695), Act IV, scene xx
- Life & Death
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein1879–1955
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969
- Leadership
The awful daring of a moment’s surrender
Which an age of prudence can never retract
By this, and this only, we have existed
T. S. Eliot1888–1965The Waste Land (1922)In context
- Courage
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I…I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost1874–1963The Road Not Taken (1915), Mountain Interval (1916, 1920), The Road Not Taken, st. 4In context
A man who never made a mistake never made anything.
DGDavid Gemmell1948–2006
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
André Gide1869–1951One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
Nothing noble is done without risk.
André Gide1869–1951
Many will call me an adventurer, and that I am… only one of a different sort: one who risks his skin to prove his truths.
Che Guevara1928–1967Last Letter to his Parents (1965)