“You risked your life to help people you love. I risked your life to help myself. At least you had good intentions.”— Rita Hsiao, Mushu (voice), Eddie Murphy, imdb.com
“If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”— Jim Rohn, twitter.com
“Too bad people didn’t fall in love at the same pace, at the same time, for the same reasons, and too bad those emotions didn’t move simultaneously. But each act of madness moved at its own pace, one not dependent on the pace of anyone else. It wasn’t like tandem skydiving, where you were connected a…”— Eric Jerome Dickey, amazon.com
“It’s such a liability to love another person… it’s like playing catch with grenades.”— Janet Fitch, amazon.com
“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it, you’ll land among the stars.”— Norman Vincent Peale, amazon.com
“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”— William Faulkner, amazon.com
“Most people never pick up the phone, most people never ask. And that’s what separates the people that do things from the people that just dream about them. You gotta act. And you gotta be willing to fail.”— Steve Jobs, youtube.com
“I’m gonna bite the bullet. I mean, the apple. I mean, I know what you want to do to me and I am not afraid of snakes.”— Clementine Von Radics, clementinepoetry.us
“They say Icarus was a fool for flying too close to the sun. I say it's only because of him we know how close we can get. I love the fall of those brave enough to fail for the right reasons. Fuck the easy glory of mere excellence. The only legacy I will accept is to know that however far I got — it w…”— Jared Singer & Anthony Ragle, youtube.com
“Career progression often depends upon taking risks and advocating for oneself— traits that girls are discouraged from exhibiting.”— Sheryl Sandberg, amazon.com
“Lenin had been a risk-taker. Trotsky had been one, too, until Stalin had made him the Bill Gates of the Soviet Union, the excoriated crypto-reactionary. But Stalin himself hadn’t needed to take so many risks, because terror worked better. Although, to a man, the new revolutionaries all claimed to wo…”— Jonathan Franzen, amazon.com