It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves — in finding themselves. – André Gide
Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide? – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything. – Vauvenargues
One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked. – Chinese Proverb
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. – James Bryant Conant
Perhaps I have lived my life to excess, but know what — if I had it to do over again, I would overdo it again. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. – James Thurber
We fail more often by timidity than by over-daring. – David Grayson
Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk. – Arabic Proverb
Great love and great achievements involve great risk. – Anon.
Any new venture goes through the following stages: Enthusiasm, complication, disillusionment, search for the guilty, punishment of the innocent and decoration of those who did nothing. – Anon.
You cant steal second base with your foot on first. – Proverb
Risk — If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesnt know how wide it is, hell jump and six times out of ten hell make it. – Proverb
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What youll discover will be wonderful. What youll discover is yourself. – Alan Alda
If you dont fail now and again, its a sign youre playing it safe. – Woody Allen
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
An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping hell quickly learn how to chew it. – Roy Ash
All serious daring starts from within. – Joan Baez
The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire –the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. – Helen P. Blavatsky
