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"If you want to grow, put yourself at risk every day. These risks do not have to be big risks; smaller scale risks will work just fine. Things like talking to someone new, reading something your wouldn't normally read, etc. The only criteria is that should be something you felt a little uncomfortable doing and has the possibility, of leading to some new knowledge or experience. If you try something you were afraid to try, you will build your self-confidence, while gaining new information; you can use to work towards your goals."
-- Edward W. Smith, Sixty Seconds To Success

"To win, you have to risk loss."
-- Jean-Claude Killy, Olympic Skiing Champion

"You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you are doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle."
-- George Lucas (Film Producer)

"Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life."
-- Herbert A. Otto

"Every year I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing, and which, shirking pain, missed happiness as well. No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime "let out all the length of the reins."
-- Mary Cholmondeley (1892-1933)English writer and novelist

"It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct then your life will be safe, expedient, and thin."
-- Katherine Butler Hathaway

"One can give nothing whatever without giving oneself--that is to say, risking oneself. If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving."
-- James Baldwin, novelist

"Our lives improve only when we take chances ... and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves."
-- Walter Inglis Anderson (1903-1965), Mississippi Artist and Painter

Help save Walter Anderson artwork damaged by Hurricane Katrina

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."
-- Helen Keller

"Take a chance! All life is a chance. The person who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare."
-- Dale Carnegie (1888-1955), author, businessman and philanthropist

"Unless you are willing to take risks, you will suffer paralyzing inhibitions, and you will never do what you are capable of doing. Mistakes – missteps – are necessary for actualizing your vision, and necessary steps toward success."

"And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
-- Anais Nin

"The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life."
-- John Ortberg

"It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen."
-- Herodotus (485-425BC) Greek Historian

"It's better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late."
-- Marilyn Moats Kennedy

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
-- T. S. Eliot

"Risk none, gain nothing."
-- ©Rick Beneteau

"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."
-- Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), writer