Risk, Fear, Failure, Hard Times

Risk

“Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.”
~Helen Adams Keller

“There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-term risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”
~John F. Kennedy

“The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we hit it.”
~Michelangelo

“Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone.”
~Robert Allen

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
~ Robert F. Kennedy

Fear and Failure

“Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.”
~Henry Ford

“Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses.”
~George Washington Carver

“Do what you fear and fear disappears.”
~W. Clement Stone

“I have lived a long life and had many troubles, most of which never happened.”
~Mark Twain

Hard Times

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
~Sir Winston Churchill

“When one door closes another door opens: but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”
~Alexander Graham Bell

“Every negative event contains within it the seed of an equal or greater opportunity.”
~Napolean Hill

“The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.”
~Albert Einstein

“I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.”
~Sylvester Stallone