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• When the forms of an old culture are dying, the new culture is created by a few people who are not afraid to be insecure.
  • Rudolf Bahro, Socio-Ecologist

• Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.
  • Voltaire

• Fate loves the fearless. 
  • James Lowell

• The biggest risk is not taking any risk.
  • Mark Zuckerberg

• Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
  • Helen Keller, Blind Holocaust Survivor & Author

• In the middle of difficulty…. lies opportunity.
  • Albert Einstein

• You are successful and creative only when you see an opportunity in every difficulty.
  • Swami Chinmayananda

• Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
  • Andre Gide, Author

• We must dare to think, unthinkable thoughts.
  • James W. Fulbright

• There is much to be said about challenging fate, instead of ducking behind it.
  • Diana Trilling

• The moment somebody says to me, “This is very risky,” is the moment it becomes attractive to me.
  • Kate Capshaw

• Only those who will risk going too far, can possibly find out how far one can go.
  • T S Eliot, Poet

• The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
  • Arthur C Clarke, SciFi Author

• Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
  • Anon

• The boat that stays in the harbour never encounters any dangers, but also never gets anywhere.
  • Richard Armstrong

• I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
  • G. K. Chesterton, Essayist

• They sicken of the calm, who know the storm.
  • Dorothy Parker, Writer

• Problems are the price of progress. Don’t bring me anything but troubles, good news weakens me.
  • Charles Kettering

• Winter is the spring of genius.
  • English Proverb

• Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori? If one lives well, what matter how one dies?
  • Anon

• Calamitas virtuitus occasion – Calamity is virtue’s opportunity.
  • Seneca

• Lucter est emergo – Struggle to emerge.
  • Latin Wisdom

• Mathemata est Pathemata – Learning is suffering.
  • Latin Wisdom

• Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.
  • Friedrich Nietzsche

• Fate loves the fearless.
  • James Lowell

• If the Creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant for us to stick it out.
  • Arthur Koestler, Author

• Take a tip from the turtle: the only way to progress is by sticking out your neck.
  • Anon

• There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth…not going all the way, and not starting.
  • Buddha

• Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
  • Mahatma Gandhi

• Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
  • Albert Einstein

• The man, who makes no mistakes, usually does not make anything.
  • William C. Magee

• A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.
  • Bernard’s Bingo Magazine

• People who don’t break things first will never learn to create anything.
  • Taglog Proverb, Filipino Tribe

• If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.
  • Mary Pickford

• The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the new things he will try. …. I would never promote into a top-level job, a man who was not making mistakes…. otherwise he is sure to be mediocre.
  • Peter Drucker, Management Expert

• I am glad I paid so little attention to the good advice; had I abided by it, I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
  • Gene Fowler

• No man ever becomes great or good, except through many and great mistakes.
  • Karen Lynn

• The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of the DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.
  • Lewis Thomas

• Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
  • Confucius

• Making mistakes is a lot better than doing nothing.
  • Billie Armstrong, Musician

• All great discoveries were made by mistake.
  • Harold Faber

• There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they’re necessary to reach the places we’ve chosen to go.
  • Richard Bach, Novelist

• Trial, error, learning are the three rungs on the ladder of evolution, whether for man or nature.
  • Santana Jose

• Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn’t work and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.
  • Roger Von Oech

• I would sooner fail than not be amongst the greats.
  • John Keats, Poet

• You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
  • Beverley Sills

• Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you do hold, well.
  • Josh Billings

• The men who do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.
  • Lloyd Junes

• Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account, is the gift of a few.
  • Bulwer Lytton

• This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.
  • Byron Katle

• A man’s life is interesting primarily, when he has failed. For it is a sign that he has tried to surpass himself.
  • Georges Clemenceau

• Failure is the price of improvement. Success is never final. Failure never fatal. It is the courage to dare that counts.
  • Anon

• Give me truthful error anytime, full of seeds bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truths for yourself.
  • Vilfredo Pareto

• The crime is not to avoid failure. The crime is not to give triumph a chance.
  • Huw Wheldon

• Fortune is surely his, who constantly strives; it is only cowards who wail, “O’ my fate, it is my fate”. Strike fate a blow; show your manliness using whatever strength you have; what matter if your efforts fail?
  • The Panchatantra

• Many people’s tombstone should read, “Died at 30. Buried at 60”.
  • Nicholas Butler

• Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.  
  • Confucius

• It’s not whether you get knocked down…. It’s whether you get up again.
  • Vince Lombardi

• Ten times knocked down flat, eleven times standing straight.
  • Martial Arts Maxim

• The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.
  • Fritjof Nansen

• Moments of glory are not achieved by staying in our comfort zone. Moments of glory occur when we step outside ourselves and fear shakes hands with freedom.
  • Kay Allenbaugh

• A man, whose youth has no follies, will in his maturity have no power.
  • Mortimer Collins

• Never forget, the follies of yesteryears are the manure for the harvests of the future.
  • David Brooke

• Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which one to keep.
  • Scott Adams, Cartoonist

• Half the failures of this world arise from pulling in one’s horse as he is leaping.
  • Augustus Hare

• We are all faced with great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
  • Charles R Swindoll

• Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
  • Shakespeare

• 100% of the shots you don’t take don’t go in.
  • Wayne Gretzky

• Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.
  • Edmund Burke

• To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
  • Elbert Hubbard

• The only way to be absolutely safe is never to try anything for the first time.
  • Magnus Pyke

• The man who seeks to be true, must run the risk of being mistaken, of putting himself in the wrong.
  • Karl Jaspers

• Honour and shame from no condition arise / Act well your part; there all the honour lies.
  • Pope, Poet

• For when one Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He marks – not that you won or lost – but how you played the game.
  • Grantland Rice

• Heroes show their mettle by goodly efforts, success depends on the dictates of Destiny.
  • Bhasa

• All glory comes from daring to begin.
  • Eugene E Ware

• The beginning is the most important part of the work.
  • Plato

• If you know the beginning well the end will not trouble you.
  • African Proverb

• So many fail because they don’t get started – they don’t go. They don’t overcome inertia. They don’t begin.
  • W. Clement Stone

• Come to the edge, / No, we will fall; / come to the edge / No, we will fall; / They came to the edge / He pushed them and they flew.
  • Guillaume Appoloinaire

• Virtue is not knowing, but doing.
  • Japanese Proverb

• Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Author

• Doing it is not necessary, but not doing it is worse.
  • Anon

• There are hazards in anything one does, but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.
  • Shirley Williams

• There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable in-action.
  • John F. Kennedy

• Don’t wait around for your life to happen to you. Find something that makes you happy, and do it. Because everything else is just background noise.
  • Xander Berkley

• This time, like all other times is a very good one, if we know what to do with it.
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson

• You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face; you must do things, which you think you cannot do.
  • Eleanor Roosevelt

• Even when pushed against the wall, I try to work out a solution. I look for a crack in the hard and cold wall.
  • Kiran Bedi, IG of Police and Magsaysay Awardee

• Yield not to misfortunes, but advance all the more boldly against them.
  • Virgil

• Trouble itself finds itself troubled, when it comes across one untroubled by trouble.
  • Thiru Valluvar, Tamilian Sage

• In the midst of uncertainty keep determination in your thoughts and it will become a guiding light in front of you. Those, whose thoughts are filled with determination, will find everything to be possible.
  • Dadi Janki

• It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.
  • Seneca

• The fear of life is the favourite disease of the 20^th century.              
  • William Lyon Phelps

• Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
  • Samuel Johnson, Essayist

• The man, who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.
  • Henry- Frederic Amiel

• You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness is. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
  • Albert Camus, Author

• A ship in a harbour is safe but that’s not what ships are meant for.
  • Anon

• The boat that stays in the harbour never encounters any dangers but also never gets anywhere.
  • Richard Armstrong

• Smaller boats may hug the shore but larger ones need venture more.
  • Anon

• Anybody can pilot the ship when the sea is calm.
  • Anon

• Make voyages. Attempt them. That’s all there is.
  • Elaine Dundy

• Indeed, one’s faith in ones plans and methods is truly tested when the horizon is blackest.
  • Gandhi

• Your big opportunity may be right where you are, now!
  • Napoleon Hill

• Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they’re yours.
  • Richard Bach, Author  (Illusions)

• Take heart again; put your dismal fears away. One day who knows? Even these hardships will be grand things to look back on.
  • Virgil

• Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
  • Goethe

• Only those who risk, create! Only those who create, live!
  • Eco Zed

• Dare to dream, dare to do, dare to Be! / Even when the masses disagree.
  • Eco Zed

• Some people are so afraid of dying, that they never begin to live.
  • Henry Jackson Van Dyke

• To achieve great things, we must live as if we were never going to die.
  • Valluenrigues

• Dream as if you will live forever. Live as if you will die today.
  • James Dean, Iconic Hollywood Actor – Died in a Racing Car Crash

• Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
  • Bruce Barton

• Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful: yourself.  
  • Alan Alda

• Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreating to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more admirable than the mole that lies in the dark tunnel.
  • Khalil Gibran, Poet

• Some men seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
  • Washington Irving

• And as she looked about, she did behold, /How over the same door was likewise writ, /Be bold, be, bold, and everywhere, be bold.
  • Edmund Spencer, Poet

• Heart of oak are our ships. / Heart of oak are our men, / We always are ready; / steady, boys steady; / We’ll fight and we’ll conquer again.
  • David Garrick

• Man’s greatness lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.
  • Albert Camus, Author

• Life shrinks or expands according to one’s courage.
  • Anais Nin

• We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We’ve got to jump right in there with both feet.
  • Dolores Huerta

• Hitch your wagon to a star.
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, / Or what’s a heaven for?
  • Robert Browning, Poet

• Big things are not achieved by small mind and timid heart. 
  • Rajiv Gandhi, Fmr. PM India

• Aim high and never look down.
  • Kalpana Chawla, Crew Member On Ill-Fated Colombia Shuttle,

• Not to decide is to decide.
  • H. Cox

• One of these days is none of these days.
  • African Proverb

• Don’t wait for the Last Judgment, it happens every day.
  • Albert Camus

• Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now — always.
  • Albert Schweitzer

• Seek not refuge in an illusory world to flee from the hard facts and harsh realities of life. Look life resolutely in the face.
  • Prophet Zarathustra, Avesta

• One ship goes East another West /By the self-same winds that blow, /T’is the set of the sail and not the gale /That determines the way we go. /Like the winds of the seas are the ways of fate /As we voyage along through life /But t’is the set of the soul that determines the goal /And not the calm or strife.
  • Ella Wheeler Fox

• We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
  • Aristotle Onassis, Greek Shipping Magnate

• 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 the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
  • Mark Twain, Author

• If you wait until the wind and weather is just right, you will never plant anything and never harvest anything.
  • The Bible

• Sitting still and wishing /Makes no person great. /The good Lord sends the fishing /But you must dig the bait.
  • John Masefield

• Opportunities multiply as they are seized; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities. 
  • John Wicker

• Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
  • Bulgarian Proverb

• He who is firm and resolute in will moulds the world to himself.
  • Goethe

• The world steps aside for him who knows where he is going.
  • Cicero

• There is nothing impossible in the entire world, except that the heart of man is wanting in resolution.
  • Confucius

• When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
  • Viktor Frankl, Holocaust Survivor & Psychiatrist

• For man is man and master of his fate.
  • Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet

• You are the Master of your own fate.
  • Prophet Zarathustra

• He who says: “It is too hot, too cold, too late!” /Leaving the waiting work unfinished still, /Let’s pass all opportunities for good. /But he who reckons heat and cold as straws /And like a man does all that’s to be done, /He never falls away from happiness.
  • Digha Nikaya, Sigalovada Sutta

• He who moans, ‘this is fate’, is weak, but he who claims to make his fate, is strong.
  • Sanskrit Proverb

• Only worthless people blame their karma. 
  • Burmese Maxim

• If you wake up breathing, congratulations! You have another chance.
  • Andrea Boydston

• It’s hard to make a comeback when you haven’t been anywhere.
  • Written in dust on the back of a bus, Wickenburg, AZ

Scores more Quotes in this Genre avail in ‘The Collection’ (Estd. 1958)