#risk

Only those who play win. Only those who risk win. History favors risk-takers. Forgets the timid. Everything else is commentary. ↗

— Iveta Cherneva

#leadership #risk-taking #timid #leadership

Far better it is 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 gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#fear #inaction #just-do-it #risk #timidity

I always had this idea that you should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thing as a happy ending. Do you know what I mean? There is so much to lose ↗

— John Green

#life #risks #life

Happiness is a risk. If you're not a little scared, then you're not doing it right. ↗

— Sarah Addison Allen

#life #risk #life

Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn’t care about so that I couldn’t lose anything I really loved ever again. ↗

— Cecelia Ahern

#disappointment #fear-of-commitment #love #relationships #risks

If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore. ↗

— Shirley M Hufstedler

#life

Being safe doesn't mean you won't be sorry. ↗

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

#regret #risk #safe #sorry #life

To take that risk, to offer life and remain alive, open yourself like this and become whole. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#life

To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#chivalry #dejan-stojanovic #life #literature #literature-quotes

To me, impulsive means foolish. But if a person’s not a little impulsive, they don’t have a pulse. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#foolish #impulse #impulsive #impulsiveness #life