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.

Keller, Helen

23.

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

24.

You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.

Brown, Les

25.

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

26.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

Sarton, May

27.

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

28.

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

Burke, James E.

29.

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 much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Roosevelt, Theodore

30.

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

Gardner, John W.

31.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

32.

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

Getty, J. Paul

33.

He who stays in the valley will never see over the hill.

34.

To achieve anything in this game, you must be prepared to dabbled on the boundary of disaster.

Moss, Stirling

35.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Joaquin Setanti

36.

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

37.

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

Watson, Thomas J.

38.

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

Horace

39.

If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.

Koestler, Arthur

40.

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

Toffler, Alvin

41.

When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

Sher, Barbara

42.

If you are never scared, embarrassed, or hurt, it means you never take chances.

Soul, Julia

43.

Be bold. If you are going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.

King, Billie Jean

44.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The ?sure thing? boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

45.

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

John F. Kennedy

46.

Somebody must take a chance. The monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees making faces at the monkeys who did.

Steffens, Lincoln

47.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Ali, Muhammad

48.

If you want to launch big ships you have to go where the water is deep.

49.

Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

Feather, William

50.

Buyers are graded not only on their successes, but also on their failures. Too many hits means the buyer isn't taking enough chances.

Wexner, Leslie