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Motivational Quotes:
Risk-Taking and Change

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

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.
- Trammell Crow

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
- Admiral Grace Murray Hopper

We cannot discover new oceans until we have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
- Muriel Chen

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
- African proverb

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic.
- Unknown

The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter Drucker

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
- Elinor Smith

There are three kinds of people: Those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who ask, "What happened?"
- Casey Stengel

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything, is ready, we shall never begin.
- Ivan Turgenev

He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg.
- Chinese proverb

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Henry David Thoreau

Leap and the net will appear.
- Julia Cameron

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.
- Goethe

Opportunity dances with those on the dance floor.
- Unknown

You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that is where the fruit is.
- Will Rogers

The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them.
- John Seely Brown

Things do not change. We change.
- Henry David Thoreau

We must be the change we wish to see in the world.
- Gandhi

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
- John Maynard Keynes

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
- Albert Einstein

We have to act our way into a new way of thinking rather than think our way into a new way of acting.
- Unknown

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We know only two things about the future: It cannot be known, and it will be different from what exists now and from what we now expect.
- Peter Drucker