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| Don’t refuse to go on an occasional wild goose chase – that’s what wild geese are for. ~ Author Unknown |
| To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. ~ Soren Kierkegaard |
| I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. ~ Pablo Picasso |
| When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. ~ Cynthia Heimel |
| I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I’m not afraid of falling into my inkpot. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first. ~ Frederick B. Wilcox |
| Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is? ~ Frank Scully |
| Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking. ~ Tim McMahon |
| Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at. ~ Author Unknown |
| The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, |
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| You’ll always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. ~ Wayne Gretzky |
| I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. ~ G.K. Chesterton |
| What is more mortifying than to feel you’ve missed the Plum for want of courage to shake the Tree? ~ Logan Pearsall Smith |
| A ship in harbor is safe – but that is not what ships are for. ~ John A. Shedd, |
| To eat an egg, you must break the shell. ~ Jamaican Proverb |
| To win you have to risk loss. ~ Jean-Claude Killy |
| The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one’s self to destiny. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte |
| If you’re never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances. ~ Julia Sorel (Rosalyn Drexler), |
| Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise. ~ Author Unknown |
| Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. ~ Samuel Johnson |
| This nation was built by men who took risks – pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, business men who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action. ~ Brooks Atkinson |
| The more chance there is of stubbing your toe, the more chance you have of stepping into success. ~ Author Unknown |
| The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of the Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life. ~ Robert MacIver |
| Of all the people I have ever known, those who have pursued their dreams and failed have lived a much more fulfilling life than those who have put their dreams on a shelf for fear of failure. ~ Author Unknown |
| Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome. ~ Samuel Johnson, |
| Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. ~ Robert F. Kennedy |
| It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. ~ Seneca |
| What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? ~ Robert H. Schuller |
| You must lose a fly to catch a trout. ~ George Herbert |
| The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. ~ Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield |