The only people who never fail are those who never try.
Ilka Chase

It would be an inconvenient rule if nothing could be done until everything can be done.
Churchill, Sir Winston

"The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depends upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance,-- and so quit a certainty for an uncertainty
Seneca

I do not offer the old smooth prizes, but offer rough new prizes;
These are the days that must happen to you:
Whitman, Walt, Song of The Open Road

Security is a kind of death.
Tennessee Williams

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
ANDRÉ GIDE

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
HELEN KELLER

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

Don't play for safety—it's the most dangerous thing in the world.
HUGH WALPOLE

Be daring, be different, be impractical; be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
CECIL BEATON

There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
JOHN F. KENNEDY

Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.
MENANDER

"Come to the edge," he said. They said, "We are afraid." "Come to the edge," he said. They came. He pushed them . . . And they flew.
GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE