Venture Quotes

• Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

  Lydia M. Child

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-by. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.

  Jack Kerouac

  Goodbye, Travel, Crazy

  "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac, (Ch. 8), 1957.

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• Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And venture belongs to the adventurous.

  Navjot Singh Sidhu

  Adventure, Entrepreneur, Decision

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• Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Failure

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1120, Delphi Classics

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• Being, be bold and venture to be wise.

  Horace

  Wise, Military, Being Wise

  Horace (1878). “Horace: Satires, Epistles, and Ars Poetica”

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• It's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies

  Jack Kerouac

  Goodbye, Travel, Crazy

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.237, Penguin

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• Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Memories, Lying, Men

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• Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

  W. Clement Stone

  Motivational, Success, Time

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• Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fall

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• It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

  Richard DeVos

  Running, Winning, Possible And Impossible

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• I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

  Virginia Woolf

  Women, Diversity, Poetry

  A Room of One's Own ch. 3 (1929)

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• Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.

  Jim McMahon

  Motivational, Failure, Risk

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• To strive endlessly to stir the venturesome spirit that moves you to follow a rainbow to its end... and thus make your travel dreams come true.

  Wally Byam

  Inspirational, Dream, Travel

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• It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.

  Vaclav Havel

  Inspiring, Success, Vision

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• I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Believe, Being Different, Made

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1996). “The Confessions”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

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• Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Strong, Courageous, Dare

  Sherwood Anderson (2015). “Winesburg, Ohio”, p.116, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Fixed, Standing

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1882). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels: From the German...”

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• The brave venture anything.

  Euripides

  Courage, Bravery, Brave

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• Venture nothing, and life is less than it should be.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Trying, Life Is, Should

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• We must learn to lean upon ourselves; we must learn to plan and execute business enterprises of our own; we must learn to venture our pennies if we would gain dollars.

  Timothy Thomas Fortune

  Dollars, Gains, Pennies

  Timothy Thomas Fortune (2008). “T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator: A Collection of Writings, 1880-1928”

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• Life is best organized as a series of daring ventures from a secure base

  John Bowlby

  Life Is, Daring, Organized

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• When contemplating the pursuit of a dream or the start of a new venture, too many people are hesitant to begin because they can't comprehend the entire journey. If that's where you find yourself right now, don't expect to understand what it takes to get to the top. Just take the next step. There's no shame in starting small; in fact, if you don't start small, you'll probably never start at all.

  John C. Maxwell

  Dream, Journey, New Ventures

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• [M]anufacturing, science and engineering are ... incredibly creative. I'd venture to say more so than creative advertising agencies and things that are known as the creative industries.

  James Dyson

  Creativity, Science, Agency

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• Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been; hear voices not once heard before, reach world on world through door on door; find unexpected keys to things locked up beyond imaginings. What might you be, perhaps become, because one book is somewhere? Some wise delver into wisdom, wit, and wherewithal has written it. True books will venture, dare you out, whisper secrets, maybe shout across the gloom to you in need, who hanker for a book to read.

  David McCord

  Education, Wise, Book

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• He that would fish, must venture his bait.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Bait, Fish Tanks, Fishes

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