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Taking Responsible Risks

Being adventuresome. Living on the edge of one's competence. Venture Out!

Sometimes you just have to take the leap and build your wings on the way down.
Kobi Yamada
We can never discover new continents until we have the courage to lose sight of all coasts.
Andre Gide
There is a time for daring and a time for caution, and a wise man knows which is called for.
John Keating, Teacher in Dead Poet's Society
If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
Katharine B. Hathaway
The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
Amelia Earhart
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
Theodore Roosevelt
Risk! Risk anything! . . . Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Katherine Mansfield
We must dare, and dare again, and go on daring.
Georges Jacque Danton
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Abraham Lincoln
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little past them into the impossible.
Arthur Clarke
We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.
John F. Kennedy
Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.
David Lloyd George
One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T. S. Eliot
In parenting and teaching, let this be our aim: Not to make every idea safe for children, but every child safe for ideas.
Gerhardt E. Frost
Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
Amelia Earhart
Find a way to engage the heart in the problem and you are likely to see the child rise naturally to his own optimal levels of uncertainty, risk and relevance.
Richard Jones
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
John F. Kennedy
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking - by all means ask!
W. Clement Stone
The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear.
William Jennings Bryan
Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
Ronald Osborn
People don't always have the vision, and the secret for the person with the vision is to stand up. It takes a lot of courage.
Natalie Cole
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard
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