I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

What is more mortifying than to feel you've missed the Plum for want of courage to shake the Tree? (Quote by - Logan Pearsall Smith)

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)

A lot of successful people are risk-takers. Unless you're willing to do tha to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen. (Quote by - Phillip Adams 1939)

To win you have to risk loss. (Quote by - Jean-Claude Killy)

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. (Quote by - Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield)

Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)

To win without risk is to triumph without glory. (Quote by - Pierre Corneille)

A ship in harbor is safe - but that is not what ships are for. (Quote by - John A. Shedd, Salt from My Attic)

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances. (Quote by - Julia Sorel)

Don't play for safety. It's the most dangerous thing in the world. (Quote by - Hugh Walpole)

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! (Quote by - Winston Churchill)

You miss 100% of the shots you never take. (Quote by - Wayne Gretzky)

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. (Quote by - Joaquin Setanti)

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. (Quote by - Erica Jong )

You must lose a fly to catch a trout. (Quote by - George Herbert)

I have found that a large percentage of the population operates under a dangerous illusion - the illusion that the world's problems are too big and too complex for one individual to make a difference. But I believe one person can make a difference. My dad always told me, 'We're here to inspire each other, to bring out the best in each other, and the only way we can do that is to care about each other.' (Quote by - Ray Gatchalian)

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks. (Quote by - Helmuth von Moltke)

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure. (Quote by - J Danforth Quayle)

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is? (Quote by - Frank Scully)

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. (Quote by - Herodotus)

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. (Quote by - T.E. Lawrence)

If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much room. (Quote by - Jayne Howard)

It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever. (Quote by - Philip Adams)

By sharing knowledge you empower [others] to act on their own. Shared knowledge enables people to take a risk to expand an idea and to venture to a new horizon. (Quote by - Sheila M. Bethel)