Life is "trying things to see if they work."

- Ray Bradbury

The person who has had a bull by the tail once has learned 60 or 70 times as much as a person who hasn't.

- Mark Twain

The important thing is this: to be ready at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you could become.

- Charles Dickens

Many of us are afraid to follow our passions, to pursue what we want most because it means taking risks and even facing failure. But to pursue your passion with all your heart and soul is success in itself. The greatest failure is to have never really tried.

- Robyn Allen

Do one thing every day that scares you.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.

- Christopher Reeve

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

- Vincent van Gogh

To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control, that can lead you to be shattered in very extreme circumstances for which you were not to blame. That says something very important about the condition of the ethical life: that it is based on a trust in the uncertain and on a willingness to be exposed; it's based on being more like a plant than like a jewel, something rather fragile, but whose very particular beauty is inseparable from that fragility.

- Martha Nussbaum

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

Remember, you can't steal second if you don't take your foot off first.

- Mike Todd

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

- Vincent van Gogh

Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.

- Oscar Wilde

Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.

- Frederick Wilcox

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

- G. K. Chesterton

Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.

- Paul Tillich

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

- Brian Tracy



Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

- Mark Twain



The only person who never makes mistakes is the person who never does anything.

- Denis Waitley



The most important thing to remember is this: To be ready at any moment to give up what you are for what you might become.

- W. E. B. Du Bois



Those who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try nothing and succeed. (adapted)

- Lloyd Jones



Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe.

- Winston Churchill



With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

- Keshavan Nair



Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

- Mark Twain



No garden is without its weeds.

- Thomas Fuller



You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.

- Will Rogers



Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.

- Ella Williams



If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be too cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

- Annie Dillard



It is easy to follow, but it is uninteresting to do easy things. We find out about ourselves only when we take risks, when we challenge and question.

- Magdalena Abakanowicz



There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

- M. Scott Peck



I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

- Alfred Tennyson



Perhaps; but is it not Tennyson who has said: "'Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have lost at all"? in The Way of All Flesh

- Samuel Butler



The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

- Pearl S. Buck



If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.

Walden

- Henry David Thoreau



The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

- Virginia Woolf



Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

- Robert F. Kennedy



The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

- Winston Churchill



Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

- Erich Fromm



It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

- Edward de Bono



Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.

- Susan B. Anthony



Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.

- Thomas Alva Edison



People wish to be settled: only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson



Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

- Helen Keller



Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order.

- Katherine Mansfield



There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity.

- Douglas MacArthur



Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.

- St. Augustine