A little uncertainty is good for everything.

Henry Kissinger, U.S. secretary of state

 

 

They fail and they alone, who have not striven.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich, poet, editor

 

 

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

 

 

Dare to be yourself.

Andre Gide

 

 

No-risk managements run both no-win and no-fun businesses.

Al Neuharth, newspaper publisher.

 

 

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act yourself. Face the truth.

Katherine Mansfield

 

 

You can only become a winner if you are willing to walk over the edge.

Ronald E. McNair, astronaut who died in the Challenger space shuttle explosion

 

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

 

 

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I or are the others crazy?

Albert Einstein, physicist

 

 

Make voyages! Attempt them! there's nothing else

Tennessee Williams

 

 

The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and the unknown, who is unafraid of failure will succeed.

Gordon Parks

 

After the final no, there comes a yes, and on that yes the future world depends.

Wallace Stevens

 

 

A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist

 

 

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Mark Twain, writer

 

 

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

Gail Sheehy, writer

 

 

Fortune favors the bold.

Virgil, poet

 

 

The who doesn't risk never gets to drink champagne.

Russian proverb