Thoughts for Thursday: Pioneers and Risk-Takers

Thoughts for Thursday is a new meme hosted by Musings on Fantasia and LKHill.  In this meme, we share thoughts or quotes that we know or have recently come across. Each week there is a specific subject or theme. These can be quotes from books, quotes by famous people, (quotes by YOU, perhaps ;D). Anything from anywhere is game, though we do ask that you keep your quote to a few sentences at most. Don't quote, for example, entire passages of a book or essay. These can be funny quips, cool sayings, hair-raising antidotes, movie lines, any kind of quote you can think of!

Just have fun, collect awesome sayings by awesome people, and try to be inspired!

This week's theme is pioneers and risk-taking.  (For more quotes, check out my other blog.)

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage.--Sydney Smith

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.--Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.--Helen Keller

If you don't live on the edge, you can't see the view.--Vicky Corrington

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!--General George S. Patton, Jr.

Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.--Mark Twain

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.--William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar

Work like you don't need money, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like no one's watching.--Unknown

Which is your favorite quote about risk? Do you have one to add?

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