Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is read more

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

You miss 100% of the shots you never take.

You miss 100% of the shots you never take.

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.

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.

Everything is sweetened by risk.

Everything is sweetened by risk.

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

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

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.

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.