Risk Quotes and Risk-Taking Quotes

"Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible"

~ Cadet Maxim

"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. "

~ Henry Miller

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

~ Robert F. Kennedy

"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success. "

~ Henry David Thoreau

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."

~ Robert Frost

"If your life is free of failures, you’re not taking enough risks."

~ Anonymous

"Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first."

~ Frederick B. Wilcox

"If you risk nothing, then you risk everything."

~ Geena Davis

John Wooden's Top Inspirational Quotes

"Nothing will work unless you do."

"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be."

"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."

"I'd rather have a lot of talent and little experience than a lot of experience and little talent."

"The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team."

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

"Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of being."

"Ability is a poor man's wealth."

"The athlete who says that something cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it."

"You can't live a perfect day with doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you."

William Shakespeare Love Quotes

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs.
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes.
Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears.
What is it else? a madness most discreet,
A choking gall and a preserving sweet.

They do not love that do not show their love.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

If music be the food of love, play on.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

Is love a tender thing? it is too rough,
Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.

Hear my soul speak:
The very instant that I saw you, did
My heart fly to your service.

Love is like a child,
That longs for everything it can come by.

Motivational Quotes

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas Edison

Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Napoleon Bonaparte

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.
Mark Twain

It's never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot

No-one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero! (Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow)
Horace

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.
William Arthur Ward

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao Tzu

Famous Love Quotes

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never… never forget it.
Curtis Judalet

Love is always bestowed as a gift – freely, willingly and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved; we love to love.
Leo Buscaglia

Love is like a roller coaster,
Once you have completed the ride,
you want to go again.
Unknown

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality.
Viktor E. Frankl

Love at first sight is often cured by a second look.
Love is sweet when it’s new, but sweeter when it’s true.
Love is like a butterfly, it settles upon you when you least expect it.
Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.
Drew Marrymore

Love is like a glass door… sometimes you don’t see it, and it smacks you right in your face.
Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
Anonymous

Forever is not a word…rather a place where two lovers go when true love takes them there.
Unknown

One’s first love is always perfect until one meets one’s second love.
Elizabeth Aston

Where the sacred laws of honour are once invaded, love makes the easier conquest.
Addison

Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one’s breath.
Eve Glicksman

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.
Myrtle Auvil

When they asked me what I loved most about life, I smiled and said you.

Unknown

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
Francois

I have learned not to worry about love;
But to honor its coming with all my heart.
Alice Walker

I speak in hugs & kisses because true love never misses I will lead or follow to be with you tomorrow. Unknown

One does not fall “in” or “out” of love. One grows in love.

Leo Buscaglia

Love appears in moments, how long can I hold a moment, as my moment fades, I yearn to catch sight or sound of you, to feel the surging of my heart erupt into joyous sounds of laughter.

Chris Watson

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

Unknown

Within you, I lose myself. Without you,

I find myself wanting to be lost again.

Unknown

We don’t believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Marie E. Eschenbach

Love is the only satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Erich Fromm

Love is a puzzle posed by the emotions and not likely to be solved by reason.
Anon

Love is hard to get into, but even harder to get out of.
Unknown

They say love is blind…and marriage is an institution. Well, I’m not ready for an institution for the blind just yet.
Mae West

Love is one long sweet dream, and marriage is the alarm clock.
Unknown

Love gives light even in the darkest tunnel.
Anonymous

Love is always within. When you try to dramatize your love, you lose the depth of the love.
Charan Singh

The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.
Albert Camus

To love is to admire with the heart:
to admire is to love with the mind.
Theophile Gautier

If you love someone you would be willing to give up everything for them, but if they loved you back they’d never ask you to.
Anon

Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
Sappho

If love is a game, it has to be the hardest game in the world. After all, how can anyone win a game where there are no rules?
CODY MEYERS

If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don’t have it, no matter what else there is, it’s not enough.
Ann Landers

Gift of Hope

When once a chairman of a multinational company came to see me, to offer me a property in Bombay, he first asked, “Mother, how do you manage your budget?”

I asked him who had sent him here.

He replied, “I felt an urge inside me.”

I said, “Other people like you come to see me and say the same. It was clear God sent you, Mr. A, as He sends Mr. X, Mrs. Y, Miss Z, and they provide the material means we need for our work. The grace of God is what moved you. You are my budget. God sees to our needs, as Jesus promised. I accepted the property he gave and named it Asha Dan (Gift of Hope).”

(Mother Teresa)

The Kindness Inside

During Nelson Mandela’s 19 years imprisoned on Robben Island, one particular commanding officer was the most brutal of them all:

“A few days before Badenhorst’s departure, I was called to the main office. General Steyn was visiting the island and wanted to know if we had any complaints. Badenhorst was there as I went through a list of demands. When I had finished, Badenhorst spoke to me directly.

He told me he would be leaving the island and added: ‘I just want to wish you people good luck’. I do not know if I looked dumbfounded, but I was amazed. He spoke these words like a human being and showed a side of himself we had never seen before. I thanked him for his good wishes and wished him luck in his endeavours.

I thought about this moment for a long time afterwards. Badenhorst had perhaps been the most callous and barbaric commanding officer we had had on Robben Island. But that day in the office, he had revealed that that there was another side to his nature, a side that had been obscured but still existed.

It was a useful reminder that all men, even the most seemingly cold-blooded, have a core of decency and that, if their hearts are touched, they are capable of changing. Ultimately, Badenhorst was not evil; his inhumanity had been foisted upon him by an inhuman system. He behaved like a brute because he was rewarded for brutish behaviour.”

(Nelson Mandela, “Long Walk To Fredom”)

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Peace of Mind

Once Buddha was walking from one town to another town with a few of his followers. This was in the initial days. While they were travelling, they happened to pass a lake. They stopped there and Buddha told one of his disciples, “I am thirsty. Do get me some water from that lake there.”
The disciple walked up to the lake. When he reached it, he noticed that some people were washing clothes in the water and, right at that moment, a bullock cart started crossing through the lake. As a result, the water became very muddy, very turbid. The disciple thought, “How can I give this muddy water to Buddha to drink!” So he came back and told Buddha, “The water in there is very muddy. I don’t think it is fit to drink.”
After about half an hour, again Buddha asked the same disciple to go back to the lake and get him some water to drink. The disciple obediently went back to the lake. This time he found that the lake had absolutely clear water in it. The mud had settled down and the water above it looked fit to be had. So he collected some water in a pot and brought it to Buddha.
Buddha looked at the water, and then he looked up at the disciple and said, “See what you did to make the water clean. You let it be ... and the mud settled down on its own – and you got clear water... Your mind is also like that. When it is disturbed, just let it be. Give it a little time. It will settle down on its own. You don’t have to put in any effort to calm it down. It will happen. It is effortless.”
What did Buddha emphasize here? He said, “It is effortless.” Having 'peace of mind' is not a strenuous job; it is an effortless process. When there is peace inside you, that peace permeates to the outside. It spreads around you and in the environment, such that people around start feeling that peace and grace.

“Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.”


“Every man is afraid of something. That’s how you know he’s in love with you; when he is afraid of losing you.”


“Love is like an earthquake-unpredictable, a little scary, but when the hard part is over you realize how lucky you truly are.”


“The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned.”
William Somerset Maugham


“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.”
Judy Garland


“One of the hardest things in life is watching the person you love, love someone else.”


“If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were.”


“Trying to make someone fall in love with you is about as pointless as trying to control who you fall in love with.”


“It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone – but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.”


“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.”


“To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.”


“I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.”


“You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”


“It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is the most painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let the person know how you feel.”

I believe- 
That we don't have to change friends if we understand that friends change.


I believe- 
That no matter how good a friend is, they're going to hurt you every once in a
while and, you must forgive them for that.


I believe-
That true friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance. 
Same goes for true love.


I believe- 
That you can do something in an instant that will give you heartache for life.


I believe- 
That it's taking me a long time to become the person I want to be.


I believe- 
That you should always leave loved ones with loving words. It may be the last time you see them 


I believe- 
That you can keep going long after you can't.


I believe- 
That we are responsible for what  we do, no matter how we feel.


I believe- 
That either you control your attitude or it controls you.


I believe-
That regardless of how hot and steamy a relationship is at first, the passion fades and there
had better be something else to take its place.


I believe- 
That heroes are the people who do what has to be done when it needs to be done, 
regardless of the consequences.


I believe- 
That money is a lousy way of keeping score.


I believe- 
That my best friend and I can do anything or nothing and have the best time! 


I believe- 
That sometimes the people you expect to kick you when you're down, will be the ones to help you get back up.


I believe- 
That sometimes when I'm angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn't give me the right to be cruel.


I believe- 
That just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.


I believe- 
That maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you've had and what you've 
learned from them and less to do with how many birthdays you've celebrated.


I believe- 
That it isn't always enough to be forgiven by others.
Sometimes you have to learn to forgive yourself.

I believe-
That no matter how bad your heart is broken the world doesn't stop for your grief.


I believe- 
That our background and circumstances may have influenced 
who we are, but we are responsible for who we become.


I believe- 
That just because two people argue, it doesn't mean they don't love each other,  And just
because they don't argue, it doesn't mean they do.


I believe- 
That you shouldn't be so eager to find out a secret. It could change your life forever.


I believe- 
That two people can look at the exact same thing and see something totally different.


I believe- 
That your life can be changed in a matter of hours by people who don't even know you.


I believe- 
That even when you think you have no more to give, when a  
friend cries out to you - you will find the strength to help.


I believe- 
That credentials on the wall do not make you a decent human being.


I believe- 
That the people you care about most in life are the essence of life.
Tell them today how much you love them and what they mean to you.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going. ~ Napoleon Hill

Love hurts the most when the two of you keep holding on and suddenly DESTINY gives up. 

When you fall in love, don’t give everything without leaving something for yourself. 

Mistakes can also lead us to a lifetime suffering. I know this is true for because of my mistake, I lost you.

"Like what you do. If you don't like it, do something else." - Paul Harvey

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character." - Albert Einstein