Thursday, February 23, 2006

Risk

To try is to risk failure. But risk must be taken because the greatest hazard of life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, live and love.
- Leo Buscaglia

5 comments:

JCR said...

Good stuff...somewhat reminds me of one of my favorite quotes...

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."


"Citizenship in a Republic,"
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

Aim Claim said...

ohhhh, that's great too!

Katie said...

totally thought of the teddy roosevelt quote too. LOVE that quote and this one is great also.

Anonymous said...

Aim, your post is one of my all time favorite quotes. Love it.
MLS

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