“He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.”
Paul Tillich
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
T.S. Eliot
“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
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
Andre Gide
“Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.”
Katherine Mansfield
“Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.”
Jim McMahon
“When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are, and seem, terrible for a man, because it is noble to do so and disgraceful not to do so.”
Aristotle