“Don’t hesitate or allow yourself to make excuses. Just get out and do it. Just get out and do it. You will be very, very glad that you did.”— Christopher McCandless, Christopher McCandless, Christopher McCandless, amazon.com
“You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.”— Ray Bradbury, quoteinvestigator.com
“To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.”— Mark Rothko, en.wikiquote.org
“You know. Life’s short. If you don’t try new things, you’ll never know what you’re best at. And you can only make time for new things by quitting the things you know don’t work for you.”— Meg Cabot, amazon.com
“When I was younger, I was kind of fearless. I think it takes more courage to do things when you know more. I was completely naive, and I was like, why can't I do anything I want to do? You know, go for it. And you know what? I still feel like even in today's world, I feel that that's something that…”— Carole King, npr.org
“Life is too short to hold yourself back from feeling something deeply and denying yourself from expressing that. Take risks. Be courageous.”— Gia Sison, twitter.com
“What happened to the writer is not what matters; what matters is the large sense that the writer is able to make of what happened.”— Beth Kephart, amazon.com
“Do you know, yet, what you're writing about? Do you know what is at stake?”— Beth Kephart, amazon.com
“Don't be intimidated by other people's opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Stop repeating the same lesson, because you won't learn anything new that way.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“I take risks, sometimes patients die. But not taking risks causes more patients to die, so I guess my biggest problem is I've been cursed with the ability to do the math.”— Lawrence Kaplow, Thomas L. Moran, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, amazon.com
“You’ll never have that kind of relationship in a world where you’re afraid to take the first step because all you see is every negative thing 10 miles down the road.”— Robin Williams, amazon.com
“But if you don’t try, you’ll still wake up every day wondering, you’ll still stare at your phone waiting, you’ll still ask yourself questions you’ll never know the answers to. Because taking risks is not only part of life, it’s also an essential part of love.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“Many of us choose relationships of affection and care that will never become loving because they feel safer. The demands are not as intense as loving requires. The risk is not as great. So many of us long for love but lack the courage to take risks. Even tough we are obsessed with the idea of love t…”— Bell Hooks, huffingtonpost.com
“Fret not where the road will take you. Instead concentrate on the first step. That’s the hardest part and that’s what you are responsible for.”— Elif Shafak, amazon.com
“A model might sometimes help us to avoid repeating the stupid mistakes that others have made, but, more often than not, it becomes a prison that makes us repeat what everyone else has always done.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Elsewhere are two letters that were never sent, because of pride, each a declaration of love that would’ve changed lives.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.com
“Taking one’s chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com