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Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

Joyce Brothers

Witty, Hurt, Simple

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A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

Grace Hopper

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

1987 Address at Trinity College, Washington. Reported in Time, 22 Jun.

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Everyone has a 'risk muscle.' You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don't, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day.

Roger von Oech

Inspirational, Trying Something New, New Day

Roger Von Oech (1986). “A Kick in the Seat of the Pants: Using Your Explorer, Artist, Judge, & Warrior to Be More Creative”, Harper Perennial

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Ray Bradbury

Confidence, Courage, Travel

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It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

Theodore Roosevelt

Motivational, Courage, Strong

Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Lord Chesterfield

Education, Knowledge, World

'Letters to his Son' (1774) 4 October 1746

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To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Pierre Corneille

Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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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 Carnegie

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"Dale Carnegie's Scrapbook - a Treasury of the Wisdom of the Ages". Book edited by Dorothy Carnegie, 1983.

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Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Walter Anderson

Change, Happiness, Success

Walter Anderson (1988). “The Greatest Risk of All”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Do the hardest thing on earth for you. ACT YOURSELF.

Katherine Mansfield

Risk, Earth, Take A Chance

Journal, 10 Oct. 1922

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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

e. e. cummings

Life, Confidence, Believe

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People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

Peter Drucker

Inspirational, Leadership, Mistake

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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

T. S. Eliot

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1250, Faber & Faber

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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Robert Kennedy

Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

Robert F. Kennedy (1967). “To seek a newer world”, Doubleday Books

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To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

Soren Kierkegaard

Life, Success, Courage

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

Andre Malraux

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

Elbert Hubbard

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen" by Elbert Hubbard, (p. 370), 1898.

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A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

John Henry Newman

Inspirational, Inspiring, Motivational Sports

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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Anais Nin

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

George S. Patton

Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging

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And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Erica Jong

Love, Inspirational, Life

"Fear of Flying". Book by Erica Jong, 1973.

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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

Andre Gide

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

"The Counterfeiters". Book by Andre Gide, 1925.

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Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

"The Road Not Taken" l. 16 (1916)

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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life, Motivational, Positive

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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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.

Helen Keller

Inspirational, Life, Strength

Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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