The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)

You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take. (Quote by - Wayne Gretzky)

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. (Quote by - George S Patton)

Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first. (Quote by - Frederick B. Wilcox)

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crack-pot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost. (Quote by - Thomas J. Watso)

There are costs and risks to a program of action, but they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction . (Quote by - John F Kennedy 1917)

The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of the Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life. (Quote by - Robert MacIver)

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. (Quote by - Robert F. Kennedy)

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance. (Quote by - Calvin Coolidge)

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. (Quote by - Strom Jameson)

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. (Quote by - Cynthia Heimel, "Lower Manhattan Survival Tactics")

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

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. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)

Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. (Quote by - Walter Anderson)

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. (Quote by - Seneca)

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. (Quote by - Pablo Picasso)

In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes. (Quote by - Adlai Stevenson)

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. (Quote by - G.K. Chesterton)

My theme is to make a difference right here in my own neighborhood. I don't have to fight the whole world. If I do well where I am, it will make a difference in the rest of the world... People want to do and to be better. They need inspiration to change and to try to make a difference. They need a catalyst to inspire faith and to encourage them to take a risk. (Quote by - Esau Herrera )

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

To eat an egg, you must break the shell. (Quote by - Jamaican Proverb)

You die one way or the other. Either you speak out and take the risk or you die in the cesspool... If you get even one [drug dealer] off the street, it's better than none. It's important to make a difference. (Quote by - Barbara Washington)

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? (Quote by - Robert H. Schuller)

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. (Quote by - Soren Kierkegaard)