“Today the man who is the real risk-taker is anonymous and nonheroic. He is the one trying to make institutions work.”
John William Ward
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
T.S. Eliot
“The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.”
Leo F. Buscaglia
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
Andre Gide
“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
“He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.”
Paul Tillich
“It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.”
Seneca