Quotes by Authors - Page 69

Creativity is inventing experimenting growing taking risks breaking rules making mistakes and having fun.
Mary Lou Cook
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Muriel Strode
There was never a place for her in the ranks of the terrible slow army of the cautious. She ran ahead where there were no paths.
Dorothy Parker
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury
Risk! Risk anything! ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Katherine Mansfield
All serious daring starts from within.
Eudora Welty
If man is not ready to risk his life where is his dignity?
André Malraux
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
No guts no glory.
Anonymous
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
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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
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
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 one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
There is no memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
James Branch Cabell
Better hazard once than always be in fear.
Thomas Fuller
Life is either always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
Edith Wharton
I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened and I'm not afraid to look behind them.
Elizabeth Taylor
A dreamer-you know-it's a mind that looks over the edges of things.
Mary O'Hara
Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
Amelia Earhart
Life has no romance without risk.
Sarah Doherty
The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind.
Maria De Beausacq
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
Courage is rarely reckless or foolish ... courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced.
Margaret Truman
Valour lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
Miguel de Cervantes
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
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps.
David Lloyd George
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
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
Take risks: if you win you will be happy if you lose you will be wise.
Anonymous
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T.S Eliot
Without risk faith is an impossibility.
Søren Kierkegaard
You have all eternity to be cautious in when you're dead.
Lois Platford
Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness-and fewer those who have taken that chance.
André Maurois
A leader must face danger. He must take the risk and the blame and the brunt of the storm.
Herbert N. Casson
If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt it means you never take any chances.
Julia Sorel
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.
Basil King
Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
Barbara Sher
All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.
Hannah Moore
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen Keller
Without danger we cannot get beyond danger.
Anonymous
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
Danger itself is the best remedy for danger.
Anonymous
He that is not in the war is not out of danger.
Anonymous