Risking Your Heart Quotes:

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.

- Louise Erdrich

source: "The Painted Drum". Book by Louise Erdrich, www.npr.org. 2005.

topic: Love, Life, Strength, Life Is Complicated, Hurting Yourself

If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.

- Geena Davis

topic: Risk, Risking Your Life, Risk And Failure, Risking Your Heart

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

- Soren Kierkegaard

topic: Life, Success, Courage, Taking Risks, Daring To Be Great

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

- William James

topic: Life, Faith, Optimism, Taking Risks, Risking Your Life

Do one thing every day that scares you.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

source: Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.32, Agate Digital

topic: Inspirational, Positive, New Year, Really Scary, Trying Something New

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

- T. S. Eliot

source: T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1250, Faber & Faber

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Fear None, Courage To Change

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

- David Lloyd George

source: "Design for Power : The Struggle for the World". Book by Frederick Lewis Schuman, 1941.

topic: Inspirational, Success, Two, Discovering Yourself, Innovation And Business

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

- John Henry Newman

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Motivational Sports, Perfectionism, Risking Your Heart

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Advice, Action, Self Determination, Importunate, Trying Something New

Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.

- Jim McMahon

topic: Risk, Would Be, Sure Thing, Chance And Risk, Risking Your Life

Leap, and the net will appear.

- Julia Margaret Cameron

topic: Positive, Leap, Career Development, Chance And Risk, Dreaming And Success

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Mistake, Management Motivation, Managing People

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Life, Positive, Happiness, Self Determination, Fear None

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.

- Mario Andretti

source: "Driving With Mario Andretti, Who at 76, Still Refuses to Slow Down". Interview with Sam Smith, www.roadandtrack.com. June 24, 2016.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Taking Risks, Dare To Be Great

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

- Anais Nin

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Scribbles, Mind Heart

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

- Pablo Picasso

topic: Inspirational, Success, Education, Inspirational Graphic Design, Taking Risks

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

- Billy Wilder

topic: Mistake, Failure, Life Is Short, Trust Your Instincts, My Mistakes

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

- Robert H. Schuller

topic: Inspirational, Life, Moving On, Chance And Risk, Risking Your Heart

The best revenge is the massive success.

- Frank Sinatra

topic: Pursue Your Dreams, Source Of Life, Innovation Inspiration, Inspirational Achievement, Inspirational And Innovation

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

- W. H. Murray

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Pursue Your Dreams, Innovation Inspiration

The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Greatness, Safety, Risk, Risking Your Life, Risking Your Heart

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

- William Jennings Bryan

topic: Motivational, Inspiring, Confidence, Improve Self Esteem, Taking Risks

Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

topic: Encouraging, Heart, Odds, Encouraging Words, Chance And Risk

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

- Wayne Gretzky

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Fitness, Thought Of The Day, Self Determination

Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.

- Jimmy Carter

topic: Inspirational, Life, Risk, Taking Risks, Inspirational Tree