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.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Everything is sweetened by risk.

Everything is sweetened by risk.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.

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.

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth read more

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.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

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

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