Quotes
Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we’re here we shall dance. - Author Unknown
Don’t fear what you want the most.
You don’t want to get to the end of life’s journey and discover you never left the interstate. - Robert Brault
Love what you do; love why you do it; love who you do it with.
You will never leave where you are until you decide where you would rather be.
The trip is more enjoyable if you know where you’re going.
Love more for today, less for tomorrow, and never about yesterday.
If tomorrow never comes, would you be satisfied with the way today ended.
For every sixty seconds you’re angry you lose one minute of happiness.
By chasing after another “there” you are never really appreciating what you already have right here.
Life is the game that must be played. - Edwin Arlington Robinson
It’s not the broken strings that stop you, it’s your inability to see what you have left to play.
For every action or event, there is an accompanying lesson that must be learned.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. - Albert Einstein
Discipline is doing what you really don’t want to do so you can do what you really want to do.
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring you own sunshine. - Anthony J. D’Angelo
No one can ruin you day without your permission.
Most days you will not get what you want,
somedays you will only get what you need,
but everyday you will get what you expect.
Never content with someone else’s definition of you.
Life is like a coin. You can spend it anyway you wish, but you only spend it once. - Lillian Dickson
You don't want to get to the end of life's journey and discover you never left the interstate. - Robert Brault
Love what you do; love why you do it; love who you do it with.
The Toughest Decision is the Correct Decision - Don Meyer
The Price of Victory is Hard Work. - Knute Rockne
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift and that is why we call it the present. - unknown
You can have anything you want but you can't have everything you want. - unkown
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. - Charles F. Kettering
Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it. -Irving Berlin
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or loser. -Lou Holtz
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. -Conrad Hilton
Have the dogged determination to follow through to achieve your goal: regardless of circumstances or whatever other people say, think, or do. - Paul J. Meyer
Nothing will work unless you do. - John Wooden
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. - Epictetus
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. - T. S. Eliot
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments. - Jim Rohn
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than fifty preaching it. - Knute Rockne
We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service. - Earl Nightingale
Treat a man as he is, he will remain so. Treat a man the way he can be and ought to be, and he will become as he can be and should be. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy. -Brian Tracy
Today, and every day, deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. - OG Mandino
If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves. - Thomas Edison
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means. - Albert Einstein
It takes struggle, a goal and enthusiasm to make a champion. - Norman Vincent Peale
Life offers no guarantees...just choices; no certainty...but consequences; no predictable outcomes...just the privilege of pursuit. - Tim Conner
There's no thrill in easy sailing when the skies are clear and blue, there's no joy in merely doing things which any one can do. But there is some satisfaction that is mighty sweet to take, when you reach a destination that you thought you'd never make. - Spirella
Purpose and laughter are the twins that must not separate. Each is empty without the other. - Robert K. Greenleaf
When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it - but all the had gone before. - Jacob Riis
"The choice you make, makes you." - John C. Maxwell
"True leadership is about going off script." - Soledad O'Brien
"Every decision you make is, at some point, going to be nothing more than a story you tell." - Andy Stanley
"Effective leaders see choice through others' eyes." - Sheena Iyengar
"Your challenge is to take what is unique about you and make it useful." - Marcus Buckingham
"I want to make someone else’s life better because I’m here. If you have that attitude it will change your day and change your life." - Tim Tebow
"We have no more excuses. Kids will move to the expectation we have of them." - Roland Fryer
"Always ask yourself: what's best for the brand? Let that guide you. It removes egos and self." - Angela Ahrendts
"It's a core value when you are willing to be punished for it." - Patrick Lencioni
"If you can somehow raise the level of play of those around you, then you’re considered a leader." - Urban Meyer
"I believe life is to be lived, not worked, enjoyed, not agonized, loved, not hated." - Leland Bartlett
“When your teammate looks you in the eye and holds you accountable, that’s the greatest kind of leadership there is.” - Doug Collins, Philadelphia 76ers Coach
“In putting together your standards, remember that it is essential to involve your entire team. Standards are not rules issued by the boss; they are a collective identity. Remember, standards are the things that you do all the time and the things for which you hold one another accountable.” - Mike Krzyzewski, USA Men’s Basketball Coach
“Everybody is going to have to be accountable. If you’re on the field, you have to give me 100 percent. Always. We have to weed out the bad seeds, point blank. If you can’t give me what I’m giving you on the field, I don’t need you on the field with me. I have no problem telling that guy I don’t need him on the field, and I have no problem going to tell Bill (Belichick) I don’t want him on the field. That’s how you win.” - Vince Wilfork, New England Patriots
"Coach Belichick holds us accountable everyday. We appreciate when he's tough on us. He gets the best out of us." - Tom Brady, New England Patriots
“The most important quality I look for in a player is accountability. You’ve got to be accountable for who you are. It’s too easy to blame things on someone else.” - Lenny Wilkens, Former NBA Basketball Coach
“Leaders must develop a lower threshold for alibis and become better communicators and enforcers of what they want done. If you are more interested in being liked and popular than holding people accountable for results, you have a serious leadership weakness. It is not your job to make people happy. Your job is to get them better. Holding people accountable to high standards and results is nothing to apologize for. Failing to stretch them to their potential is.” - Dave Anderson, Author of No-Nonsense Leadership
“New cadet, you are allowed four responses: ‘Yes, sir,’ ‘No, sir,’ ‘No excuse, sir,’ and ‘Sir, I do not understand.’ New cadet, what are your four responses?” It takes a couple of tries before the neophytes learn the codes. It will take a little longer for them to stop trying to explain things. In that phrase, “No excuse, sir” (or “ma’am”) is an early, critical lesson. Take responsibility for your actions. Always. No matter what the consequences. - Ed Ruggerro, Author of Duty First
“The big thing that we want is someone who is willing to be accountable on a daily basis.” - Jim McElwain, Colorado State Football Coach
“Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have.” - Pat Summitt, Former Tennessee Women’s Basketball Coach
“It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.” - Moliere, French Playwrite
“Our tradition calls for a commitment to accountability. This is not an assumption – this is a promise that I will be there for you; and I can count on you being there for me.” - Bob Ladouceur, De La Salle High School Football Coach
“If you’re going to lead, you need to make goals. And those goals can’t come from the top down, they’ve got to come from the people who are responsible for achieving them. Your job is to help them get there, and remind them every day what their goals are, and what they have to do to make their dreams come true. Sorry, but showing them a slide once a year about what you think their goals should be just doesn’t cut it, and it never will. Their goals have to come from them, and those goals have got to be in their bones. Trust your people with that crucial responsibility, and they will never disappoint you. Far from it, they will almost always set the goals higher than you would have ever dared – and then they are the ones who are accountable for their goals!” - Bo Schembechler, Former Michigan Football Coach
“Being there every week for my teammates is really important to me. It's about accountability.”
- Peyton Manning, Denver Broncos
“There is nothing hardhearted about holding people accountable for high standards and making tough, agonizing decisions concerning yesterday’s heroes who no longer contribute. It’s tough love. Leaders must care enough about their people, their futures, and the welfare of the organization. You’re not getting paid to maintain anyone. You are paid to lead and stretch them. Do your best to motivate and equip these people to perform, but if they don’t, you must stop hugging and burping them and take swift, appropriate action to cut your losses. - Dave Anderson, Author of No-Nonsense Leadership
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” - Edmund Burke, Irish Statesman
"The greatest joy one can have is doing something for someone else, without any thought of getting something in return."
-John Wooden
"People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care." - John C. Maxwell
"Seven Steps to Success 1) Make a commitment to grow daily. 2)Value the process more than events. 3) Don't wait for inspiration. 4) Be willing to sacrifice pleasure for opportunity. 5) Dream Big. 6) Plan your priorities. 7) Give up to go up." - John C. Maxwell
"We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are." - John C. Maxwell
"Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another." - John C. Maxwell
"Change is inevitable. Growth is optional." - John C. Maxwell
"A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them." - John C. Maxwell
"If we are growing we are going to be outside our comfort zone." - John C. Maxwell
"I would be true, for there are those who trust me; I would be pure, for there are those who care; I would be strong, for there are those who suffer; I would be brave, for there is much to dare. I would be friend of all-- the foe, the friendless; I would be giving, and forget the gift; I would be humble, for I know my weakness; I would look up, and laugh, and love, and lift. " - Howard A. Walter
Dare to Be
When a new day begins, dare to smile gratefully.
When there is darkness, dare to be the first to shine a light.
When there is injustice, dare to be the first to condemn it.
When something seems difficult, dare to do it anyway.
When life seems to beat you down, dare to fight back.
When there seems to be no hope, dare to find some.
When you're feeling tired, dare to keep going.
When times are tough, dare to be tougher.
When lover hurts you, dare to love again.
When someone is hurting, dare to help them heal.
When another is lost, dare to help them find the way.
When a friend falls, dare to be the first to extend a hand.
When you cross paths with another, dare to make them smile.
When you feel great, dare to help someone else feel great too.
When the day has ended, dare to feel as you've done your best.
Dare to be the best you can -
At all times, Dare to be!"
-Steve Maraboli
“When you say “It’s hard”, it actually means “I’m not strong enough to fight for it”. Stop saying its hard. Think positive!” - Unknown
"The main characteristic that makes people successful is not their IQ, emotional intelligence, or even creativity. It is their resilience in the face of what seem to be insurmountable obstacles." - Robert Sternberg
100 Motivational Quotes That Will Inspire Your Success:
1. "If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission." --Anonymous
2. "Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out." --John Wooden
3. "To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong." --Anonymous
4. "If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary." --Jim Rohn
5. "Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it's safe or certain." --Anonymous
6. "Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life--think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success." --Swami Vivekananda
7. "All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them." --Walt Disney
8. "Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them." --Anonymous
9. "If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got." --Anonymous
10. "Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill
11. "Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly." --Proverb
12. "Successful entrepreneurs are givers and not takers of positive energy." --Anonymous
13. "Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them." --Vaibhav Shah
14. "Opportunities don't happen, you create them." --Chris Grosser
15. "Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value." --Albert Einstein
16. "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." --Eleanor Roosevelt
17. "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." --Thomas A. Edison
18. "If you don't value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents--start charging for it." --Kim Garst
19. "A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him." --David Brinkley
20. "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." --Eleanor Roosevelt
21. "The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it." --Henry Ford
22. "If you're going through hell keep going." --Winston Churchill
23. "The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do." --Anonymous
24. "Don't raise your voice, improve your argument." --Anonymous
25. "What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise." --Oscar Wilde
26. "The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away." --Anonymous
27. "The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success." --Bruce Feirstein
28. "When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you." --Lolly Daskal
29. "Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." --John D. Rockefeller
30. "No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist." --Anonymous
31. "Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." --Nathaniel Hawthorne
32. "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." --Albert Einstein
33. "Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting." --Anonymous
34. "Do one thing every day that scares you." --Anonymous
35. "What's the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable." --Anonymous
36. "Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." --Lolly Daskal
37. "Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent." --Anonymous
38. "Knowledge is being aware of what you can do. Wisdom is knowing when not to do it." --Anonymous
39. "Your problem isn't the problem. Your reaction is the problem." --Anonymous
40. "You can do anything, but not everything. --Anonymous
41. "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." --Steve Jobs
42. "There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed." --Ray Goforth
43. "Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life." --A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
44. "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." --Thomas Jefferson
45. "The starting point of all achievement is desire." --Napoleon Hill
46. "Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out." --Robert Collier
47. "If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work." --Thomas J. Watson
48. "All progress takes place outside the comfort zone." --Michael John Bobak
49. "You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing." --Philippos
50. "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absense of fear." --Mark Twain
51. "Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone." --Pablo Picasso
52. "People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing--that's why we recommend it daily." --Zig Ziglar
53. "We become what we think about most of the time, and that's the strangest secret." --Earl Nightingale
54. "The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary." --Vidal Sassoon
55. "The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place." --Guy Kawasaki
56. "I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing." --Martha Stewart
57. "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." --Anonymous
58. "The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same." --Colin R. Davis
59. "The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers." --Ralph Nader
60. "Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it." --Maya Angelou
61. "As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others." --Bill Gates
62. "A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them." --Henry Kravis
63. "The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself." --Mark Caine
64. "People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy." --Tony Robbins
65. "When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid." --Audre Lorde
66. "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." --Mark Twain
67. "The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus." --Bruce Lee
68. "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear." --Mark Twain
69. "Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success." --Dale Carnegie
70. "If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much." --Jim Rohn
71. "If you genuinely want something, don't wait for it--teach yourself to be impatient." --Gurbaksh Chahal
72. "Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning." --Robert Kiyosaki
73. "If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!" --T. Harv Eker
74. "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life." --Steve Jobs
75. "Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better." --Jim Rohn
76. "The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors." --Napoleon Hill
77. "The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them." --Denis Waitley
78. "In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it." --Jane Smiley
79. "Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time." --George Bernard Shaw
80. "I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well." --Diane Ackerman
81. "You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them." --Michael Jordan
82. "Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going." --Jim Ryun
83. "People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing." --Dale Carnegie
84. "There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul." --Ella Wheeler Wilcox
85. "Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter." --Francis Chan
86. "You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction." --George Lorimer
87. "To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can't just accept the ones you like." --Mike Gafka
88. "Success is ... knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others." --John C. Maxwell
89. "Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice." --Wayne Dyer
90. "To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe." --Anatole France
91. "Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all." --Dale Carnegie
92. "You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals." --Booker T. Washington
93. "Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable." --Theodore N. Vail
94. "It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." --Herman Melville
95. "Fortune sides with him who dares." --Virgil
96. "Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it." --Washington Irving
97. "Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor." --Truman Capote
98. "Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." --John R. Wooden
99. "You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." --Margaret Thatcher
100. "A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done." --Vince Lombardi
"Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." --Mark Twain
"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." --Lao Tzu
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." --T. S. Eliot
"Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at." --Unknown
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I ... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." --Robert Frost
"Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have." --Oprah Winfrey
"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten." --Tony Robbins
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."-- Henry David Thoreau
"If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on." --Sheryl Sandberg
"People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year." --Peter F. Drucker
"Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit." --e. e. cummings
"If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big." --Donald Trump
"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore." --Andre Gide
"The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open." --Chuck Palahniuk
"You can't outwit fate by trying to stand on the sidelines and place little side bets about the outcome of life. Either you wade in and risk everything to play the game, or you don't play at all. And if you don't play, you can't win." --Judith McNaught
"If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough." --Mario Andretti
"Everyone has a 'risk muscle.' You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don't, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day." --Roger von Oech
"Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it." --Oprah Winfrey
"The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live." --Leo F. Buscaglia
"Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing." --Denis Waitley
"You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together." --Earl Nightingale
"The universe has no restrictions. You place restrictions on the universe with your expectations." --Deepak Chopra
"Do one thing every day that scares you." --Mary Schmich
"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it." --Pablo Picasso
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life." --Steve Jobs
"If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary." --Jim Rohn
"There is only one way to avoid criticism: Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing." --Aristotle
"There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk." --Drew Barrymore
"If you don't build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs." --Dhirubhai Ambani
"You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done." --Chuck Yeager
"The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. " --Mark Caine
"Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it's realistic or not." --Deepak Chopra
"Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane." --R. D. Laing
"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life." --Steve Jobs
"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
"Leap and the net will appear." --Zen saying
"Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act." --Maxwell Maltz
"I don't think you're human if you don't get nervous." --Sidney Crosby
"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
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." --John A. Shedd
"Our lives improve only when we take chances, and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves." --Walter Anderson
"Think big and don't listen to people who tell you it can't be done. Life's too short to think small." --Tim Ferriss
“You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive." --Elia Kazan
"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." --Michael Jordan
"Because if you're prepared and you know what it takes, it's not a risk. You just have to figure out how to get there. There is always a way to get there." --Mark Cuban
"When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important." --Ellen DeGeneres
"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself." --Soren Kierkegaard
"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!" --Gen. George S. Patton
"Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself." --J. B. Priestley
"Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk--and to act." --Andre Malraux
"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default. " --J.K. Rowling
"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." --Chinese Proverb
"Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth." --Katherine Mansfield
"Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try." --Jack Canfield
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, dream, discover." --H. Jackson Brown
"When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given." --Barbara Sher
"Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear." --George Addair
"Screw it, Let's do it!" --Richard Branson
"You can't have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you." --Marissa Mayer
"Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's." --Billy Wilder
"I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It's because of them I'm doing it myself." --Albert Einstein
"Only those who play win. Only those who risk win. History favors risk-takers. Forgets the timid. Everything else is commentary." --Iveta Cherneva
"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me." --Ayn Rand
"Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible." --Cadet maxim