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• If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.

  Geena Davis

  Wisdom, Ifs, Risk And Failure

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• The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.

  Gordon Parks

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

  Erica Jong

  Love, Relationship, Marriage

  erica jong (1977). “how to save your own life”

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• Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail.

  Elliott Smith

  Fear, Failure, Musician

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• Rarely are opportunities presented to you in a perfect way. In a nice little box with a yellow bow on top. 'Here, open it, it's perfect. You'll love it.' Opportunities -- the good ones -- are messy, confusing and hard to recognize. They're risky. They challenge you.

  Susan Wojcicki

  Nice, Opportunity, Yellow

  "CEO Susan Wojcicki speaks at Johns Hopkins graduation". hub.jhu.edu. May 22, 2014.

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• To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Luminous, Risk It

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• Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Philosophical, Opposites, Wells

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• Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Speech to Hamilton Club, Chicago, Ill., 10 Apr. 1899 See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 18

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• The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Life, Leadership, Determination

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• Everything is sweetened by risk.

  Alexander Smith

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.58

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• The real enemy of safety is not non-compliance but non-thinking

  Rob Long

  Real, Thinking, Safety

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• Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

  Storm Jameson

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Storm Jameson (1941). “The End of this War”

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• Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, Business, War

  "The Three Essential Warren Buffett Quotes To Live By" by James Berman, www.forbes.com. April 20, 2014.

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• You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

  Rosalynn Carter

  Courage, Women, Failure

  Rosalynn Carter (2016). “First Lady from Plains”, p.45, University of Arkansas Press

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• For people choosing to use a network marketing system to build a business in the B quadrant, the price of entry is a lot lower, the risks are lower, and the education and support are there to guide you through this personal development process.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Mlm, People, Support

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• It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

  John Paul Jones

  Winning, Law, Flexible

  "Should young people take risks while volunteering?" by Sally Higham, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2013.

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• No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Leadership, Men, Patriotism

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.78, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.

  Charles Stanley

  New Year, Fear, Opportunity

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• I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Funny, Believe, Evil

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• If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

  Dan Quayle

  Funny, Running, Stupid

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• The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil is a sickness of the soul. The boredom produced by a complete absence of risk is also a sickness of the soul.

  Simone Weil

  Evil, Boredom, Soul

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.226, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• I learned to embrace risk, as long as it was well thought out and, in a worst-case scenario, I'd still land on my feet.

  Eli Broad

  Learning, Land, Worst Case Scenario

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• If I'm not free to fail, I'm not free to take risks and everything in life that's worth doing involves a willingness to take a risk.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Failing, Ifs, Willingness

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• For the truth is that I already know as much about my fate as I need to know. The day will come when I will die. So the only matter of consequence before me is what I will do with my allotted time. I can remain on shore, paralyzed with fear, or I can raise my sails and dip and soar in the breeze.

  Richard Bode

  Fate, Sailing, Dip

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• You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

  Louise Erdrich

  Strength, Love You, Heart

  "The Painted Drum". Book by Louise Erdrich, www.npr.org. 2005.

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