Everything is sweetened by risk.

Everything is sweetened by risk.

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. read more

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.

If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much room.

If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much room.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure than to take read more

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

You miss 100% of the shots you never take.

You miss 100% of the shots you never take.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence read more

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.

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.