Quotes by American Authors - Page 62

The fixed determination to have acquired the warrior soul to either conquer or perish with honor is the secret of victory.
General George S. Patton
He gets a good hold on the paintbrush then confidently has the ladder removed.
Roger Vaughan
Sometimes I think we can tell how important it is to risk by how dangerous it is to do so.
Sonia Johnson
Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through of getting to the other side the relief of a conflict healed the clarity when a paradox dissolves.
Marilyn Ferguson
We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road-the one less traveled by-offers our last our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.
Rachel Carson
Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
General Douglas MacArthur
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
James Thurber
Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?
Frank Scully
There are those who have discovered that fear is death in life and have willingly risked physical death and loss of all that is considered valuable in order to live in freedom.
Virginia Burden Tower
When something does not insist on being noticed when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
Cynthia Ozick
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller
Nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.
James A. Garfield
No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
Charles F. Kettering
To play it safe is not to play.
Robert Altman
For of all sad words of tongues or pen the saddest are these: It might have been.
John Greenleaf Whittier
The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong.
Barbara Sher
The only things you regret are the things you don't do.
Michael Curtiz
There is no memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
James Branch Cabell
The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
Helen Rowland
People who are born even-tempered placid and untroubled-secure from violent passions or temptations to evil-those who have never needed to struggle all night with the angel to emerge lame but victorious at dawn never become great saints.
Eva Le Gallienne
Life is either always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
Edith Wharton
Between two evils I always picked the one I never tried before.
Mae West
The moment somebody says "this is very risky" is the moment it becomes attractive to me.
Kate Capshaw
A dreamer-you know-it's a mind that looks over the edges of things.
Mary O'Hara
We may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.
Randolph Bourne
Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
Amelia Earhart
The soul should always stand ajar ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
Emily Dickinson
My favorite thing is to go where I have never gone.
Diane Arbus
Every minute of life I take a risk it's part of the enjoyment.
Otto Preminger
The rewards go to the risk-takers those who are willing to put their egos on the line and reach out to other people and to a richer fuller life for themselves.
Susan RoAne
And the trouble is if you don't risk anything you risk even more.
Erica Jong
Entrepreneurs in accepting risk achieve security for all. In embracing change they ensure social and economic stability.
George Gilder
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
Jeannette Rankin
Courage is rarely reckless or foolish ... courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced.
Margaret Truman
I compensate for big risks by always doing my homework and being well-prepared. I can take on larger risks by reducing the overall risk.
Donna E. Shalala
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
General George S. Patton
There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent creative personality for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.
Shirley Chisholm
Love like a chicken salad or restaurant hash must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.
Helen Rowland
Life is a risk.
Diane Von Furstenberg
Those lose least who have least to lose.
Rose O'Neil
I am willing to put myself through anything temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level. I am interested in the unknown and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers an often painful process.
Diana Nyad
Competition can damage self-esteem create anxiety and lead to cheating and hurt feelings. But so can romantic love.
Mariah Burton Nelson
Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature.
Helen Keller
I'll always push the envelope. To me the ultimate sin in life is to be boring. I don't play it safe.
Cybil Shepherd
Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risks.
Shirley Hufstedler
When you make a commitment to a relationship you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.
Barbara De Angelis
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
Bette Davis
Women must think strategically about creating ongoing pressure for change.
Mary Baker Eddy
Taking risks gives me energy.
Jay Chiat
The faster you go the more chance there is of stubbing your toe but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.
Charles F. Kettering
In order to find the edge you must risk going over the edge.
Dennis Dugan
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T.S Eliot
Of course people are afraid. But honestly facing that fear seeing it for what it is is the only way of putting it to rest.
Harvey Fierstein
If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt it means you never take any chances.
Julia Sorel
Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
Barbara Sher
What one has not experienced one will never understand in print.
Isadora Duncan
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen Keller
It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary.
Sonia Johnson
A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.
Katharine Hepburn
As soon as there is life there is danger.
Ralph Waldo Emerson