A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.
~ Grace Hopper
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
~ Abraham Maslow
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
~ Peter McWilliams
No living creature, except for a man, is able to take a risk, and even the risk of death, for the sake of
truth. Thousands of martyrs who have lived are a unique phenomenon in the history of our solar system.
~ Aleksandr Menn
The only safe thing is to take a chance.
~ Mike Nichols
Don’t play for safety. It’s the most dangerous thing in the world.
~ Hugh Walpole
Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.
~ Frederick Wilcox
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.
~ C.S. Lewis
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A great risk quote:
“So many people tiptoe through life, so carefully, to arrive, safely, at death.” from courage quotes.