(45 quotes found)
“Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.”
Henri Frederic Amiel
“To be alive at all involves some risk.”
Harold Macmillan
“One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum”
Sir Walter Scott
“You must lose a fly to catch a trout”
George Herbert
“If you're not making mistakes, you're not taking risks, and that means you're not going anywhere. The key is to make mistakes faster than the competition, so you have more changes to learn and win.”
John W. Holt Jr.
“Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the”
Winston Churchill
“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
“Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.”
Jim McMahon
“If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged”
Virginia Woolf
“Where there is no difficulty there is no praise”
Samuel Johnson
