Don't be afraid to take one large step because you can't cross a chasm in two small leaps. --Unknown
To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one’s self... And to venture in the highest sense is precisely to become conscious of one’s self. -- Kierkegaard
The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.
First you jump off the cliff and you build your wings on the way down. -- Ray Bradbury
To give light we must endure burning. -- Viktor Frankl
The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those who sang best." -- John James Audubon
"He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things." -- Marquis of Halifax
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to be sure to keep it in tact, you must give your heart to no one. Lock it up, safe in the coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless it will change. It will not be broken, but it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.The only place outside of heaven where you can be safe from all the dangers of love is hell. -- C. S. Lewis
Whatever happened to your spirit of adventure?" We are afflicted today with what I call "V.S. disease -- the Vanilla Syndrome -- going to Baskin Robbins 31 flavors and ordering vanilla." -- Redbook magazine
I am shocked. I have spent ten years as a Christian, but for some reason I didn’t see the power that is connected with simply serving in small ways in the name of Christ. When I clean toilets hearts are opened. I feel that my life will be divided into two parts -- B.T. and A.T. -- before toilets, and after toilets!" -- German lady, mid 50’s cleaning bathrooms at a kindness outreach.
I have never met a Christian who sat down and planned to live a mediocre life. -- Howard Hendricks
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. -- Samuel Johnson
Above all, try something. -- FDR
Ready, Fire, Aim -- Executive at Cadbury’s
In the midst of a generation screaming for answers, Christians are stuttering. -- Howard Hendricks
The Word became flesh -- and then through theologians it became words again. -- Karl Barth
Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either. -- Paul Tournier
Most people spend their entire life indefinitely preparing to live. -- Paul Tournier, The Adventure of Living
Fear not that your life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning. -- John Henry Newman
You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take. -- Wayne Gretsky
Don’t wait. You’ll end up waiting forever... jump into the now. -- Clyde Reid, Celebrate the Temporary
Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there. -- Will Rogers
Boldness becomes rarer, the higher the rank. -- Karl von Clausewitz
To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work is as impossible as it is to live without being born. -- Harry Truman
A leader is, by definition, an innovator. He does things other people haven’t done or don’t do. He does things in advance of other people. He makes new things. He makes old things new. Having learned from the past, he lives in the present, with one eye on the future. -- Warren Bennis
Four things come not back: the spoke word, the sped arrow, the past, the neglected opportunity. -- Omar Idn Al-Halif
Progress always involves risk. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first. -- Frederick B. Wilcox
Self-confidence is the result of a successfully survived risk. -- Jack Gibb
Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers and uncomfortable doing. -- Ed Foreman
If you wait until the wind and weather are just right, you will never plant anything and never harvest anything. -- Eccl. 11:4
Life is "trying things to see if they work" -- Ray Bradbury Source: The Art of Creative Thinking - book by Robert Olson (1986)
If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out. - Arthur Koestler
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. --Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), inscription beneath his bust in the Hall of Fame
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